Second Order Effects
The side effect of policy
Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s new Boarder Czar, needs a better strategy to get cooperation from blue states. This short article identifies a quick and easy strategy for getting rid of stupid politicians and replacing them with cooperative ones.
The President has proposed and congress is moving forward with a plan to privatize the US Air Traffic Control (ATC) System. This article looks at the potential safety implications with this proposal. The principal charge by General Aviation Organizations, they represent the people that own those small private planes, is that the proposal will turn the US ATC over to the Airlines.
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.)