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Well, seeing as Santa Fe is the oldest capital in the United States, we should move the capital there! It's celebrating its 400th anniversary this year, so it's got the history. And, 400 years as a capital, it's got the experience too.
How about doing something completely different and relocating the capital to a tiny town way off the beaten path?
For the first location under consideration in this plan, I nominate Zap, North Dakota (yeah, there is such a place. Zip code 58580 if you want to look it up!)
I don't klnow about a new capital, but I think we should have a second capital or alternate capital in case something happens to Washington. I think somewhere in the middle of the country like Kansas City would be the best place.
Over time given the growing split within Americans social and political beliefs, its possible we will have two capitals. One for the present administration and the like and one for the more conservative, non-socialist working class. Now that would be interesting.
Another issue, if the capital moved, what would happen to D.C.?
Dissolve it's special status and give it to Virginia or Maryland to be ran as any other US city. As it is, DC is a money pit for the US taxpayer. This is an old 1991 report on the costs related to running DC, if someone has updated info please post. Lots of interesting details.
"District expenditures per resident, excluding the cost of special federal services in Washington, are about twice the national average of state and local expenditures"
I vote to move the capitol to KC and carve it out of Missouri and Kansas, creating a new and much smaller district of mainly federal buildings, with the residents living in Kansas or Missouri.
I've read that Denver is the backup capitol for the US if Washington DC was destroyed like if there was a nuclear explosion for example. It is isolated and safe from attack and is close to NORAD air defenses.
I think Dallas-Fort Worth would be a good capital, a very importatn city in a very important state, plus better conservative influences.
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