I just got a really tough issue. I want my core spending to be on education and business.
According the issue I can:
 - Cut education and promote business. (Country of idiots who manage to succeed)
 - Do the whole tax the rich to death stuff. (No way flat tax please) It will also probably kill business.
 - Cut business and support education. And give people civil rights. (LAME)
Let me break down your options.
1. You'll have a dumber workforce, and a lot of people WON'T succeed. Higher level jobs won't have smart people.
2. Depending on how much you tax them, you should be fine, but you're way more of a fascist/capitalist country, so it's not like you're providing them with everything they need in a consumerist state. 
3. Look, this is the best option, but you have to think about if your country can support a change of funding like that.
Think about it.
ALSO forget YES I just got asked the "hey let's allocate money" question. I put more money into education.