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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump could move major government operations to the center of the country to revive those economies 
It would change both the job and housing markets[/quote]

I'm a fed and I wish my agency (or more agencies)  would move out of the DC area.  But, I'm not sure a move would do much for the new location's economy,  at least in the near term where people would see the results as a direct consequence. My agency moved to an impoverished area of the DMV, and there was a lot of fanfare about how we would bring lunchtime business : it hasn't happened because feds just don't spend that much, and also because there's little in the area to spend on.  Demand hasn't erased the barriers to starting a business,  basically.  Our janitorial staff is from the local neighborhood but that's the only direct impact I know of.

If you add in a housing move, that's a bigger impact but could further marginalize locals as taxes and prices go up. There would be some federal jobs for locals but it's not feasible to just replace all current Fed employees with local residents if those residents trained for manufacturing.  My agency moved its IT support staff to a Midwestern city a few years ago, I'll have to ask how many of those staff were hired locally but I don't think it's very many. [/quote]

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