DC statehood expand to include VA & MD suburbs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just send DC back to Maryland.....

Maryland doesn’t want it.

Maryland should want it. Being able to control the entire B-W corridor provides huge opportunities for economic development.

Say what? The political reasons against retrocession are obvious.

There is also not a giant tax windfall to be had because DC can barely find their own services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just send DC back to Maryland.....

Maryland doesn’t want it.

Maryland should want it. Being able to control the entire B-W corridor provides huge opportunities for economic development.

Say what? The political reasons against retrocession are obvious.

There is also not a giant tax windfall to be had because DC can barely find their own services.

DC runs a budget surplus. Try some other nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

No, just give DC back to Maryland. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Maryland has another city with all of that but the exorbitant cost of living already.

[Anonymous]

lol don't look to NoVA to fix your problems. We want nothing to do with you but I'm sure you'd like the richest counties in the nation folded into DC. Ain't happening pal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

No, just give DC back to Maryland. Problem solved.

DC isn’t something that can just be “given back.” A retrocession would have to be approved by voters in DC and Maryland. That’s never going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Casual racism is so 1980s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Only because DC taxes are so crazy high. Give the money back to taxpayers.

Truthiness. It feels like the truth so it must be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Don't forget the public schools. They are ranked 49th in the country.

DC is a city. Apples to oranges comparison there, smoothbrain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Don't forget the public schools. They are ranked 49th in the country.

DC is a city. Apples to oranges comparison there, smoothbrain.

Most of DC is suburban (people in Anacostia or Chevy Chase just like to pretend crossing the border magically transforms suburban into urban)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Casual racism is so 1980s.

And sugarcoating real and worsening problems is so 2020s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is never going to be a State. Never.

Circle gets the square

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should DC absorb suburbs when it becomes a state? Seems like the district is having trouble enforcing residency requirements for agency heads and since most of the city workforce aka commuters lives in the suburbs?

No, just give DC back to Maryland. Problem solved.

Neither DC nor Maryland want that, so it doesn’t solve the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny, that government you deride has a AAA bond rating and a $7B rainy day fund that is the envy if almost every governor in the union.

Yet, how many governors would envy a declining population, exorbitant cost of living, chronic homelessness, rising crime, and the clowns on the city council?

Casual racism is so 1980s.

And sugarcoating real and worsening problems is so 2020s.

DC population is not declining
Difference in costs of living are negligible
Cities have more crime than suburbs but crime is on the rise everywhere

Enjoy suburbia from the safe confines of your SUV and what passes for culture there.

[Anonymous]

Statehood is constitutional. Period.

The senate just won’t do it.