Picking numbers in bills

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One method to picking numbers in bills is to choose a range. The highest
number with the highest majority would be enacted.
Example- picking a tax rate (as a percent of gross domestic product)

A 10-15
B  12-18
C   9-19
D  16-21
E  17-30

9 1
10 2
11 2
12 3
13 3
14 3
15 3
16 4
17 4
18 4
19 3
20 2
21 2
22-30  1

18 would be enacted (assuming using whole numbers only). A tie breaker vote
could, of course, be done among the peak values (16, 17, 18). 

In a real partisan situation, of course, the ranges might be very narrow with
extremes that did not overlap (e.g. 3 votes for 20-21; 2 votes for 10-11)