Reflections On America [7.31.14]

• Data driven sentencing and parole: analyze the merits. The financial industry has chosen data driven methods for finding frauds and determining whom to give loans. How effective are data driven methods in case of sentencing and deciding cases of parole?
• Besides initiatives in the border, working closely with the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to help sort out difficulties that force children to leave these countries. High rates of homicides have been observed in these countries. Helping the countries fight crime would in turn reduce drug trafficking to US. So called central American Drug lords supply drugs to US drug dealers produced in South America.
• Making life easier for small businesses: sometimes tax cuts are not enough to lure small businesses into a state. Small businesses want hassle free ways of conducting businesses more than anything else. Always having to collect and present information to the government makes the practice of businesses frustrating. What is required is an online platform that makes it easier for governments to collect regulatory information of small businesses (tax payment information, employee information,e.g., whether employees are licensed etc.) and makes life hassle free for small businesses.