Second Order Effects
The side effect of policy
Premise of Article: The City Counsel of Philadelphia just doesn’t seem understand second order effects or think that people are smart enough to do math. This article is designed to show that economic and tax policy second order effects are easy to predict and avoid if one simply applies basic economic principles. Facts: On January …
Premise of Article: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be a lesson in what not to do when one has all of the levers of power. The Second Order Effect of the Legislation that this article discusses is the consistent opposition by the Republicans. This article is not about the goodness or badness of …
Premise of Article: The recent charges that the Russian government attempted to influence the U.S. elections this year have consumed the US mainstream media and the Russian government has denied it. In addition, Julian Assange has deigned receiving the information that he released was from the Russans. The premise of this article is could they …
President-Elect Trump has proposed restricting government employees that are involved in government contracting from ever taking jobs with government contractors. At this point, there aren’t any details about what President-Elect Trump is proposing. For the sake of this article, we will assume the most restrictive policy that we can imagine and then propose policies that would actually work. (Since this article was written, the President has clarified his position. The ban only applies to the political appointees and his immediate staff.)
The current court is the most conservative since the 1920s. Senator Harry Reid is responsible for this dramatic changes in the Supreme Court. See how ignoring traditions in the Senate set in motion the actions that revoked Roe V. Wade.