Repurpose

Here’s a simple formula for changing our world: repurpose a few hundred billion dollars by:

1. Putting a lid on U.S. military spending currently projected to be $598.5 billion. Today we spend more on our military than all other nations combined. It’s time to put the brakes on the corporate warfare welfare.
2. Moving “Black Budget” spending, into the light and limiting it. That's $59 billion - what is "known" of the "unknown" budget. No elected official knows how much we spend on Black Budget Operations. Nor, do they know where the money is going. It’s time that leak is plugged and several elected officials are made responsible to the public for the estimated trillions of dollars which unknown mystery people in the state department and multiple national security agencies are spending off-budget. Trillions? Yes, Trillions includes booty, gold, etc. taken by the U.S. from the Nazis and Japanese after WWII and "repurposed" for Black Ops.

What would we do the found revenue?
I can think of many. For starters, here’s one:
Launch a modern WPA* program to replace lead water pipes and ancient sewers throughout the nation. Replace them with modern alternatives - underground next to our roads, not under our roads. While we are at it, we should lay fiber optic cable and all other "utilities", to protect them from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, too.

*WPA
“The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration