Give your top 3 suggestions to make DC world's best capital city

[Anonymous]

Is it possible and if it is, if you had executive power, how would you achieve it?

[Anonymous]

Give businesses incentives to have headquarters in DC or impose a 0.1% Capital Care Tax on every business in this country?

[Anonymous]

Massively improve the infrastructure. Roads, metro, all of it. Just drove 295 through the district, I think Iraq has better roads than that.

Remove all the blight. DC looks terrible.

[Anonymous]

Why do we have to make it the best?

How about just putting it on par by stopping rampant crime, cleaning up the trash and the reputation.

[Anonymous]

1) Evict the felon living at 1600 Pennsylvania. That would go a long way to combatting crime.

2) Spruce up the federal buildings and Mall.

3) Make Metro free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do we have to make it the best?
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Most powerful and prosperous country's capital should look like it. Dress for the job you want.

[Anonymous]

Less boring and work obsessed residents
Different president
Fewer mediocre restaurants

[Anonymous]

Stop equalizing crime and mental health issues by exporting them from bad neighborhoods to good neighborhoods and shaming people who don't want that in their neighborhoods. Take care of the problems where they are instead of pretending sending them to better neighborhoods will somehow make them better.

Improve schools across the city.

Make public transit free so people don't have to fare-jump. If a third of riders pay then get government funding to cover that third and let everyone ride for free.

Huge fines for little things like littering and other public nuisances.

[Anonymous]

owners of all deteriorating homes should clean, repair and spruce up exterior or sell.

[Anonymous]

Initiate sprucing with free paint and plants. Encourage neighborhoods to form HOAs.

[Anonymous]

Get rid of all the overpaid useless government employees that don’t need to work in DC. Put them out west like Utah or something.

[Anonymous]

It's not possible to make it the world's best. DC is a center of government and bureaucracy. It is not a center of business, culture, or the arts. DC will never compete with cities like Paris, London, Tokyo, etc. I mean, come on, how could it better somewhere like Tokyo? That's not a dig on DC, it's just reality.

That said, to make DC truly better, it needs a growing private, private sector, more eclectic architecture and urban design, and a focus on improving safety and education (including better higher education institutions).

[Anonymous]

Define best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of all the overpaid useless government employees that don’t need to work in DC. Put them out west like Utah or something.

Uh oh, someone didn’t make it through USAJOBS.

[Anonymous]

Statehood.