When government sets out to act, it should consider all probable consequences, while carefully weighing alternative approaches.

Like individuals, governments have many policies and goals, which at times collide with one another. Sometimes policy collisions might result in physical collisions like the recent tragic loss of 67 people when an airliner ran into a military helicopter over Washington, D.C.

In a letter to The New York Times, Mitchell Zimmerman noted that “Although President Trump’s effort to cast blame for the plane crash is plainly premature, it is not too early to consider the light that the disaster casts on his efforts to gut our government.”

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