His reasons are half serious. Sure D.C. has crime and the vote left but carving out a district in the 4 corners out west? At least there'd no crime to start with.
Decentralized federal power would help. Department of the Interior in Kansas. Department of Energy in Texas. Department of Education in Mississippi. Leave as little as possible in Washington DC.
No, it is not time to move the Capitol. It is time to scatter the various bureaucratic departments among the various states.
Ten square miles outside of Nome, a few hundred miles south and west of where we put the camps for illegal aliens awaiting hearing and deportation would work for me.
My reasons for the move would be more sinister. Turn Virginia red again.
Those that follow their jobs would take their votes with them. Those that quit would move to cheaper(safe) places.
Nancy’s cross country flights would be cut in half so there’s something in it for her.
Move it to a place where they don’t complain that all the money we send to them is not enough.
DC should be dismantled for other reasons as well:
The current DC government is a Corporation founded upon Admiralty Law since the Act of 1871. It is “foreign” territory much like the City of London and the Vatican.
And, as corporations go, it is bankrupt. Not a plug nickle of real money will ever pay back the $31.6 Trillion debt, nor the hundreds of trillions of unfunded liabilities.
Maybe, if the global warming hysteria was real, the place should be flooding like it historically did. /s
Capitol, as in building where Congress meets, is misspelled.
Figures. Go woke, go broke ...
The corruption will remain the same regardless of where the capital is located.
Only if you totally strip it of self-government. Otherwise it would just reappear as itself again.
The Aleutians.
We can barely accomplish small things.
Big things are out of reach. Sorry.
You’d have to move the occult sun worship obelisk and the occult pregnant dome together.
Some day in the future, those are probably leveled in a nation that began like His New Covenant Church.
They have a smaller set at their kindred sister, the Vatican.
That’s prophetic, but not in a way that’s good news for DC or the Vatican..
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If you move the capital back to Philly, it won’t change a thing.
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Move it to Ukraine. Everyone in Washington loves Ukraine so much, let them enjoy the scenery.
I propose a “hopping capital”, maybe 5 years in one state, then 5 years in another state, then 5 years, ...
No state gets more than 5 years until it starts all over again.
It is unknown which state is next until 3 months before the end of the current state’s turn.
I’m pretty sure the Demons will figure out a way to corrupt that process, but it will take a while.
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I know what they meant and yes, move the capital from the capitol. I would like to keep my own money thank you very much.
Permanently moving the capital would just create another cesspool like D.C. in short order. Leave the federal buildings and records where they are, with minimal staff. As others have said, disperse all federal agencies to different geographic areas around the country, for sure. But do one more thing.
Make the Congress change its meeting place like we change the Superbowl location. Let Congress meet no more than 2 consecutive years and then move to a different state. Like those federal mint quarters, require Congress to meet in every state. That will also break up the liberal lobbyist colonies around D.C. in Virginia and Maryland.
I thought this was a banking thread.
Capital???
You’re right — why centralize everything in DC?
In the current world of Instant messenger, we don’t need to centralize