The Rotating Capitol City

You Will be Moving Your Racket to Another City

The primary root of interference in the lives of people is in Washington D.C.  Instead of fixing the individual problems; corporate welfare, high taxes, laws curtailing civil liberties, etc. how about we simply address the problem of physical location.  Since The White House, U.S. Congress, U.S. Treasury and The Pentagon have been located in the same spot for two centuries it has been easy for the benefactors of government to camp out in one spot, K-Street.

Lobbyists may not be thrilled with the idea of moving the U.S. Capitol to Detroit, Louisville or Oakland but why should they have all the influence?  Moving the House of Representatives and Senate to a far away land would break up the top down power structure and allow people to have a little bit of influence on lawmakers.  As it is set-up now you must be in the Beltway to lobby Congress.  This implies that a maximum of 3% of U.S. citizens have access to their representatives.  At least a change of location every 5 years would ensure that a different 3% would have some input on These United States.

The New Capitol of Florida

If we can move the U.S. Capitol then why not move the state capitols?  Instead of Albany how about Buffalo?  Move the California Governor's Mansion from Sacramento to Long Beach.  Let's move the hangers on in Tallahassee out to Tampa.  Moving expenses would be paid by those who benefit most from The State (mainly big business).

Do We Even Need an Address?

Even better would be to have a virtual capitol.  This allows all 300,000,000 people in the U.S. to have equal access to policy makers.  In fact every adult with an internet connection should be able to vote directly on proposed legislation.

There is no need to have a ruling class of 535 politicians over 300 million people.  Capitol cities are a thing of the 19th century.  It's time for the people to move forward.  If we are going to pretend to have a democracy then everyone should be able to vote on any bill they choose.  The politicians will never have the will or foresight to make this happen.  Simply outgrow them.  We will all be better off having an equal voice.