I’ve put this out a few times in the past decades: The Capitol, move it to different State Capitols of the continental US. A new location each year. Timing of the announcement of the new location would be debated, but this would keep the leaches and lobbyist in the dust. I haven’t fleshed it out, well because it’s a pipe dream, perhaps it’s time to take out the pipe again...
The problem is not being entrenched in the location of DC, the problem is the Bureaucracy being entrenched. Moving the capitol every year or every term would do little but cause disorderly confusion, the Bureaucracy would simply move along with it.
DC needs to be splintered into a minimum of 50 different locations, one in each state. There is no reason for the bureaucracy to be in any one location.
My point as well is that there really isn’t that much bureaucracy actually needed. What there is can be centralized as well. Make the pols move and experience the greater 48, they might develop a better understanding of the country that way.
Remember the pipe, and no, I don’t partake.
I’ve put this out a few times in the past decades: The Capitol, move it to different State Capitols of the continental US. A new location each year. Timing of the announcement of the new location would be debated, but this would keep the leaches and lobbyist in the dust. I haven’t fleshed it out, well because it’s a pipe dream, perhaps it’s time to take out the pipe again...
My husband has thrown out the same idea and I think it’s a great one! Anything to keep people from getting so entrenched
The problem is not being entrenched in the location of DC, the problem is the Bureaucracy being entrenched. Moving the capitol every year or every term would do little but cause disorderly confusion, the Bureaucracy would simply move along with it.
DC needs to be splintered into a minimum of 50 different locations, one in each state. There is no reason for the bureaucracy to be in any one location.
My point as well is that there really isn’t that much bureaucracy actually needed. What there is can be centralized as well. Make the pols move and experience the greater 48, they might develop a better understanding of the country that way. Remember the pipe, and no, I don’t partake.