Yes, let’s move them out of Washington.
And as Glenn suggests, it would be smart to move them into hinterlands of deep-blue states, so they don’t affect swing states.
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Yes, let’s move them out of Washington.
And as Glenn suggests, it would be smart to move them into hinterlands of deep-blue states, so they don’t affect swing states.
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Move the Dept. of Energy to Bismarck, NoDak., Interior to Rawlins, Wyo. (Or better yet, Jeffrey City.), Labor to Wheeling, WVa., Commerce to Elko, Nev., Veterans Affairs to Ft.Sill, Okla., and Education to Provo.
You would have to restrict the right of bureaucrats to vote. I fear this would have an impact similar to spreading NASA centers around. Create little enclaves whose primary purpose was to siphon and launder tax money for… whatever. I’m all for having bureaucrats imprisoned in DC. If anything let’s expand the boundary so they can’t taint the VA and MD congressional delegations without at least putting up with a soul-crushing commute. Non swing states become swing states eventually.
Might get better deals on real estate in Detroit. I’ve heard the south side of Chicago has a lot of entrepreneurs who need re-directing.
Back during the 2016 campaign it was noted that the only place the kept booming through the 2007 real-estate crash was DC and the surrounding counties. They are like Panem in The Hunger Games, getting rich by making everyone else poor, and that relative DC home prices compared to the rest of the country was an inverse indicator of freedom. So a good measure of Trump’s success would be the collapse of the DC area real-estate market.
So a good measure of Trump’s success would be the collapse of the DC area real-estate market.
And he could honestly run on wealth redistribution.
I say locate federal agencies to poor rural areas. Such as in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Detroit might be another good place. The CIA has about 100,000 agents. Lets split them up to 20 locations. Some of these would be in Appalachia, and some in other areas. This could be in New Orleans, Detroit, Columbus Ohio, and Chicago. There would be 5,000 CIA agents at each of the 20 locations. After we do this with the CIA, we could then do it with other federal agencies.
There would be two benefits to doing it this way.
1. If a nuke were to hit Washington D.C., there is a good chance that some part of the federal government would still exist.
2. It would boost the incomes of the people living in these areas. For a small town, 5,000 workers is a lot. And these workers make good money. They will be shopping at the area stores, eating at the area restaurants, and visiting other businesses in the area. There would also be more demand for more stores, and restaurants. This would mean more jobs for those areas. In many parts of Appalachia, you have very high unemployment rate.
If 200,000 jobs were moved out of D.C., to rural areas, and inner cities, this would end up helping 40 rural towns, and inner cities.
That would also greatly reduce the problem of Ivy League graduates gravitating into government jobs or to NGO’s that lobby government, because kids who went to Harvard or Yale aren’t won’t want to move to Boise, Bristol, or Topeka.
And this would help more people see the folly of more government employees drawing on our labors.
I remember having a mini-meltdown in the comments during a previous time you brought this up. Glenn’s suggestion addresses my concerns.
I’m trying to decide if federal employees paying high blue-state income taxes is a bug or a feature.