That won’t work. Eventually, the Kansas town will become Washington DC.
What is needed instead, is to move EVERY single agency to a different state.
Move the Department of Agriculture to Nebraska.
Move the Department of Energy to Texas.
Move the Health and Human Services to Maine.
Move the Department of Labor to North Dakota.
Move the Department of Education to Florida.
etc. etc. We need to break apart, root and branch, the centralized administrative state.
Energy should go to Alaska.
Education to Montana
Other than that, more or less agree
Exactly. And “Official Washington” was afraid Trump would do just that.
“Official Washington” is antiquated, corrupt, and has absolutely nothing to restrain its excesses. If it were a corporation, it would have been broken up long ago.
Similarly, there is no need for our senators and representatives to trot off to Washington like it’s 1789 or something. For the vast majority of their work, they can stay in their home districts and do their work and voting remotely. Maybe they could all get together personally once a year for the State of the Union.
Of course, spending their time amongst the people they’re supposed to be representing, rather than running off to hide in Washington, probably wouldn’t appeal to them, nor would it be popular amongst the lobbyists, bartenders, and hookers of DC.
Have you ever been to DC? If you ever went there and actually walked around and talked to people you would begin to comprehend the scale of the problem. The richest area in the country is DC in the surrounding suburbs. Moving Congress would delete much of their wealth overnight. You’re trying to complicate things. You don’t have to move these agencies around. You just need to take the people that they need to influence to a secure location and let them do their job without lobbyists and K street and cocktail parties. You’re just gonna have to trust me on this, your congressman cannot possibly withstand the pressure of Washington.