JLG wins Democratic Primary for Mayor
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Anonymous
Just read that and there's an article about White - and his quote perfectly encapsulates my fears. “D.C., we did it,” White, 44, announced to a packed room of supporters. “For 36 years, D.C.’s ‘Warrior on the Hill’ fought for us ... I promise you that I will carry your legacy forward.” The legacy of no DC Statehood and dialing it in for the last how many years. He now has a cushy job he thinks will be his forever. SMDH. |
Anonymous
That's not a given. |
Anonymous
That happens a lot. Case in point: MAGA voters for Trump. |
Anonymous
Good for you that you have this option. |
Anonymous
I don't believe your property taxes go down I your DC home becomes a second home. In fact, that is probably a great place to raise property taxes on - second homes in DC. |
Anonymous
Another page from Mamdani’s book? Congress may in fact not like that. Another policy to get their attention. |
Anonymous
Lived in DC from 1996 to 2020. Each successive Mayor after Anthony Williams was worse. Bowser has been mediocre, and it seems like JLG will be another step down. But it ain't my problem any more 
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Anonymous
If it's not your primary home you lose the homestead deduction. Thanks for the contribution? |
Anonymous
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If DC isn’t your primary home, DC loses the 11% it charges on income tax. Homestead deduction is a pittance compared to the income tax AND we will absolutely miss the income.
This is why we are screwed. People who voted for JLG don’t have ample skin in the game and are just reactionary. |
Anonymous
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Ugh. Just what we didn't need - JLG triggering a MAGA federal takeover of DC.
Y'all are stupid. |
Anonymous
You also can't send your kids to school here. You're making yourself out to be more important than you really are in the grand scheme of things. |
Anonymous
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Huh? Why would you send your kids to school here if your primary residence is elsewhere?
Let me break it down for you, Mr. “You are making yourself out to be more important”: 1) A person/ couple who declares a home in another jurisdiction to be their primary is a person/ couple who is rich. They have TWO Homes. 2) That RICH person/couple currently pay 11% in DC income tax on income substantial enough to have 2 homes. DC loses those tax dollars. 3) In order to claim another residence as your primary, you need to live there 181 days a year. That means you wouldn’t be using the schools anyway. 4) 181 days out of DC not only means no income tax from that person/couple, it also means that they aren’t spending their discretionary income in DC in our restaurants, stores, gyms, salons and theaters. 5) DC cannot afford to lose its rich tax payers. Period. They pay for our schools, our roads, our government, and our trash. Please be real. |
Anonymous
| If people do actually leave the city over this, and it is a big IF, we will be left with a tax base that isn't sufficient to cover JLG’s promises … not only that, the fed layoffs have cratered the middle class so we will be left with no rich people to fund our schools and the rest of us barely scrapping by and some of us having to explain basic economics to our neighbors. |
Anonymous
That “crazy DC crime bill” would have actually made it much easier to prosecute a whole bunch of crimes. But a few reactionary rabble rousers latched on to a couple of things in the bill that were, for all intents and purposes practically irrelevant, and used them to mislead folk yourself for their personal profit and/or political gain. So congrats, you helped make the job of MPD, the DCAG, and the USAO harder. If you care to learn more about how we were all scammed, you could do worse than pointing your browser here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities |
Anonymous
Without the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421011936/https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities |