Modern Whig Way of Problem Solving

When presented with an issue, here is the way that a problem should be solved, from start to finish:

1) Is this issue a local, state or federal issue?

2) If the issue is a federal issue, does the Federal government has a constitutional right to solve the problem?

3) Generate the "system". List the inputs into the issue, list the outputs from the issue. For example, the issue may be health care costs. Inputs include fraud, legal actions, chronic illnesses, immigration, and technology. Outputs are care and quality.

4) Determine how each input affects each output at a local level.

5) Determine scalability. Even if a problem may be handled on a federal level, if a "one size fits all" approach does not scale, then the issue should be solved at the highest level. For example, healthcare is very much a local issue. Immigration is not so much of an issue in Montana as it is in California.

6) Optimize the solution. Right level of solution (local, state or national). right size of government (if even necessary). Right change in inputs or additional inputs for the desired output.

7) Write legislation that provides a means of measuring the affect.

8) In the legislation, provide a means for changing or abolishing the legislation based upon the measured affect.