Is there a true method or best practice to the balancing of a federal budget? How do you weigh the needs and wants of your people, determining what is necessary for their well-being vs luxuries?

Some governments set their citizens up for failure. This could be the fact that there are illegal aliens that get more then the people of that nation. Is there a way to balance out this? Yes, we need to create a society that our main goal is not money, Racism is not a problem, and people respect one another. But this only happens in Sci-Fi content such as Star Trek. I think if the world adopted the utopia that Star Trek symbolizes, I think the world would be a better place

Utopia is a flawed idea though - you can't achieve it.

Someone is always going to have and someone will not. This will create division and jealousy. The only way around it would be to brainwash the citizens into believing that everything is perfect. There is also going to be a natural division due to differences in physical appearance, emotional ideologies and religion.

As much as we would love a utopia, I think a more practical approach would work more efficiently.

Necessary for the health of citizens:

• utilities (power, clean running water)

• infrastructure (services that provide, maintain and upkeep said utilities)

I think everything outside of those two could be categorized into wants and not needs. As to how to balance it, I think it would depend on determining how much of the budget is needed to maintain, upgrade or improve the first two and then have it begin to bleed into social programs for the sick and elderly, then public transit, etc.