| Problem | Components |
|---|---|
| Policy issue area: | Values |
| Policy issue: | Fairness |
| Description: | The ideal of equal sacrifice in maintaining our governmental institutions has eroded. |
| Symptoms: | Taxation is becoming increasingly regressive, with a growing share of the tax burden shifting to lower income groups. Increasingly, members of the all- volunteer armed services tend to be recruited from the less-educated or minority groups of our society. Expenditures for education and social welfare are cut, instead of providing for needed increases. |
| Causes: | Political pandering to narrow, short-sighted pocket book issues and concerns. |
| Cost of problem: | - |
| Solution | Components |
| Resources: | Religious organizations; social movement groups concerned with the problem. |
| Goal: | Provide for policies and programs that distribute equitably the burdens and sacrifices required by society and the economy. |
| Program area: | Social development |
| Program-remedy: | 1. Reinstate a more progressive system of taxation 2. Set up a National Youth Service Corps 3. Set up (or strengthen existing) other government voluntary service organizations. |
| Program-prevent: | 1. Renewed emphasis on teaching moral values and civic obligations in our schools
2. Encourage organized religious groups to stress social concerns. |
| Cost of program: | - |
| Beneficiaries: | Underprivileged members of society. |