Eliminate the amount of people. Unrealistic, but I think the US should get rid of state governments and only have a federal and county governments. Municipal governments can still exist, but really only in regards to city planning and infrastructure decisions. Issues like schools, police, social, the environment should really be consolidated at the county level anyways.

Barring that, I think the current system is definitely better than adding congress to the list of decision makers. In fact, that increases the too many cooks in the kitchen problem even more.