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It's why I think the model could be done with a failing, mildly irrelevant but still iconic part of Americana first, such as fast food. A national standard of cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets, milkshakes, fries and fish or chicken sandwiches.
It seems almost silly, but food is an essential service to the people, why not use the infrastructure already provided to make a national service that provides food (and jobs) for people? Maybe even make it free for people out of the state (provided you're actually 50 miles from your home state's border, no just jumping the border to the other Texarkana McDs) to encourage traveling inside America. People would be more likely to spend money on travel outside of their state, knowing a good hot meal is always available to them and their family. More money that could be spent back on local services, like hotels or attractions. Of course if we're talking that, then Amtrak being cheaper could be on the table too. If it didn't need to turn a profit, the services could be better, and the function could encourge intranational travel while also off of the highways that are properly used for transport of goods and services.
I don't know how to market this idea or if there's pitfalls but nationalizing icon industries could open people's minds to tackling the great beasts, and also provide a test kitchen, pun intended, for the pitfalls of such a service. Worst case, fast food just goes private again, not really a big loss.
