no need to pay PEPCO bill now?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous anyone has to pay for electricity it's a human right like healthcare or food or a house with spa showers.

That's ridiculous. We shouldn't foot the bill for poor people. Only for billionaires! They deserve our charity.

If you believe that taxpayers "foot the bill" for billionaires, you lack understanding of economics.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg someone might get a 3 month loan from Pepco.

Wake me when PPP loans are paid back

Why limit it to three months? PPP ended five years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous anyone has to pay for electricity it's a human right like healthcare or food or a house with spa showers.

That's ridiculous. We shouldn't foot the bill for poor people. Only for billionaires! They deserve our charity.

If you believe that taxpayers "foot the bill" for billionaires, you lack understanding of economics.

Someone apparently hasn't read the term sheet for the RFK Jr. Stadium. DC taxpayers are handing over billions of dollars in implicit and explicit subsidies to the Commanders and, in return, are getting almost nothing back in tax revenues. And before you accuse people of "not understanding . . . economics", you may want to review assessments by professional economists of this deal and others like it.

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Anonymous wrote:What income level would be considered "high income level" to subsidize the energy costs for the lower income levels?

Personally I feel like they should structure it like DC does with the impervious surface charge. Designate a baseline "reasonable house usage" (average for a 3br rowhouse with modern A/C and heat pump, let's say) and anyone using more than that pays into the subsidy, with bigger payments the more Kw/h you use.

That way people choosing to live in massive, wasteful houses that take kilowatt after kilowatt to heat and cool pay the most while people who choose to live in more efficient spaces pay less.

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Privatized utilities are a disaster for citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What income level would be considered "high income level" to subsidize the energy costs for the lower income levels?

This is the real question. It will probably be something like $100,000 which is pitiful in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous in 2026 that lower income and economically disadvantaged people even have to pay for electricity at all. There should be a city voucher program to cover electricity cost for people with incomes under a certain threshold. The entire program could be funded with a very small fee on the electric bills of commercial users and high income households.

Sure, we already incentivize a significant part of DC's population to not work by giving them free housing, medical care, groceries, and a monthly stipend; we might as well add electricity to that list. We should also ask them what additional things they'd like to get for free courtesy of rich people, and expand the list to accommodate additional wishes that they have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous in 2026 that lower income and economically disadvantaged people even have to pay for electricity at all. There should be a city voucher program to cover electricity cost for people with incomes under a certain threshold. The entire program could be funded with a very small fee on the electric bills of commercial users and high income households.

Sure, we already incentivize a significant part of DC's population to not work by giving them free housing, medical care, groceries, and a monthly stipend; we might as well add electricity to that list. We should also ask them what additional things they'd like to get for free courtesy of rich people, and expand the list to accommodate additional wishes that they have.

Free water and sewer would be nice. But I suggested delivering bottled water weekly for drinking.

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I don't see a problem with this, but I absolutely do with not paying parking tickets. PEPCO is gouging people. Our bill was up 20-30% last year alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Privatized utilities are a disaster for citizens.

I'm pp and THIS ^^.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous anyone has to pay for electricity it's a human right like healthcare or food or a house with spa showers.

That's ridiculous. We shouldn't foot the bill for poor people. Only for billionaires! They deserve our charity.

If you believe that taxpayers "foot the bill" for billionaires, you lack understanding of economics.

DP. Palantir got $900M in federal contracts in Trump's first year AND PAID ZERO IN TAXES after reporting $1.5B in income. It's stock rose 130%.

In what world is this NOT taxpayers "footing the bill"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ridiculous anyone has to pay for electricity it's a human right like healthcare or food or a house with spa showers.

That's ridiculous. We shouldn't foot the bill for poor people. Only for billionaires! They deserve our charity.

If you believe that taxpayers "foot the bill" for billionaires, you lack understanding of economics.

DP. Palantir got $900M in federal contracts in Trump's first year AND PAID ZERO IN TAXES after reporting $1.5B in income. It's stock rose 130%.

In what world is this NOT taxpayers "footing the bill"?

Gross or net income?

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Anonymous wrote:"The bill, introduced by socialist mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4), would prohibit Pepco, the city’s primary electricity provider, from disconnecting services for any customer owing less than $1,000 for 90 days. Lewis George argued the shutoff moratorium is necessary to ensure that D.C. residents who are struggling to get by don’t have to pay bills that might have been inflated. “For some people this is a strain on their finances, but for many it’s a breaking point,” she said."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/05/dc-utility-shutoff-moratorium-pepco-lewis-george/

San Francisco here we come of lewis george is elected mayor

Janeese says we don't have to pay our electrical bills anymore

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous in 2026 that lower income and economically disadvantaged people even have to pay for electricity at all. There should be a city voucher program to cover electricity cost for people with incomes under a certain threshold. The entire program could be funded with a very small fee on the electric bills of commercial users and high income households.

Sure, we already incentivize a significant part of DC's population to not work by giving them free housing, medical care, groceries, and a monthly stipend; we might as well add electricity to that list. We should also ask them what additional things they'd like to get for free courtesy of rich people, and expand the list to accommodate additional wishes that they have.

Look at this! A 12 year old libertarian found their way to DCUM. Welcome!

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Please do your research. Pepco’s rate increase is in litigation and a decision re: whether the rate increase approval was legal AND whether Pepco owes customers a refund will be decided within the next few months. The case has been remanded. Read and research, people! The information is there.