Everything DC manages is a disaster

[Anonymous]

A joke of a public transit system, especially for the capital city of the U.S.;

An incompetent tax office that steals money out of bank accounts instead of issuing owed refunds;

An "emergency parking" system that is basically never enforced;

No traffic police while we have increasingly dangerous roads and hordes of people riding illegal motorcycles everywhere;

Litter and trash everywhere and apparently no solution;

A huge rat problem (reported in numerous sourced this week);

A zoning board that can't be bothered to prevent eyesores or dangerous non-permitted flips;

A 911 system that is so bad multiple people have died because emergency responders went to the wrong address or didn't show up at all;

A seeming inability to do anything about spiking crime rates.

What do our tax dollars do, again?

[Anonymous]

Every large city has problems. Help, or get out.

[Anonymous]

You have just figured this out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A joke of a public transit system, especially for the capital city of the U.S.; WMATA, not DC

An incompetent tax office that steals money out of bank accounts instead of issuing owed refunds;IRS/Feds, not DC

An "emergency parking" system that is basically never enforced;DC - VERY WELL ENFORCED, are you kidding?

No traffic police while we have increasingly dangerous roads and hordes of people riding illegal motorcycles everywhere;Motorcylce issue is suburban/PG COunty, not DC

Litter and trash everywhere and apparently no solution; Personal responsibility to dispose of trash properly

A huge rat problem (reported in numerous sourced this week);Yes, that is DC

A zoning board that can't be bothered to prevent eyesores or dangerous non-permitted flips;change the home rule charter to get the feds out of DC business

A 911 system that is so bad multiple people have died because emergency responders went to the wrong address or didn't show up at all;DC, needs to be addressed

A seeming inability to do anything about spiking crime rates.national issue, but all local jurisdictions are seeing increased crime

What do our tax dollars do, again?

You have valid issues, but your solutions are not all in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A joke of a public transit system, especially for the capital city of the U.S.;

An incompetent tax office that steals money out of bank accounts instead of issuing owed refunds;

An "emergency parking" system that is basically never enforced;

No traffic police while we have increasingly dangerous roads and hordes of people riding illegal motorcycles everywhere;

Litter and trash everywhere and apparently no solution;

A huge rat problem (reported in numerous sourced this week);

A zoning board that can't be bothered to prevent eyesores or dangerous non-permitted flips;

A 911 system that is so bad multiple people have died because emergency responders went to the wrong address or didn't show up at all;

A seeming inability to do anything about spiking crime rates.

What do our tax dollars do, again?

The obvious ones are:

One of the lower tax burdens in the country despite 45% of the property in DC being exempt from property tax

Annual tax receipts that exceed forecasts and trigger automatic tax reductions

A national model for early child education and for charter schools

A long-term reduction in crime and increase in property values

A local economy that has outperformed the rest of the country despite the largest employer (Fed Govt) employing fewer people now than it did in 1980

[Anonymous]

Go to Dunkin Donuts...treat yo-self. It's Friday. No time for crabbiness on Fridays.

[Anonymous]

In Washington D.C., medical marijuana patients can possess up to two ounces of cannabis per month. The District's mayor Muriel Bowser, however, intends to double this amount.

Take a toke and relax OP things are looking up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to Dunkin Donuts...treat yo-self. It's Friday. No time for crabbiness on Fridays.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A joke of a public transit system, especially for the capital city of the U.S.; WMATA, not DC

An incompetent tax office that steals money out of bank accounts instead of issuing owed refunds;IRS/Feds, not DC

An "emergency parking" system that is basically never enforced;DC - VERY WELL ENFORCED, are you kidding?

No traffic police while we have increasingly dangerous roads and hordes of people riding illegal motorcycles everywhere;Motorcylce issue is suburban/PG COunty, not DC

Litter and trash everywhere and apparently no solution; Personal responsibility to dispose of trash properly

A huge rat problem (reported in numerous sourced this week);Yes, that is DC

A zoning board that can't be bothered to prevent eyesores or dangerous non-permitted flips;change the home rule charter to get the feds out of DC business

A 911 system that is so bad multiple people have died because emergency responders went to the wrong address or didn't show up at all;DC, needs to be addressed

A seeming inability to do anything about spiking crime rates.national issue, but all local jurisdictions are seeing increased crime

What do our tax dollars do, again?

You have valid issues, but your solutions are not all in DC.

Um you do know that the DC Office of Tax and Revenue is not the IRS, right? DCRA was raiding bank accounts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every large city has problems. Help, or get out.

Not every U.S. City is the capitol of the USA.

The pathetic condition of DC over the past 4 decades is a national (and international) disgrace.

[Anonymous]

When I fly to and from Dulles internationally, I feel strange. The infrastructure in the countries we scoff at blows us out of the water.

[Anonymous]

Lack of maintaining infrastructure is not news. Squandering of tax revenue to pay for maintenance is not news. Workers (including management) instilled with the responsibility to maintain the infrastructure but have been incompetent and/or derelict of duty is not news.

Nobody wants to pay for anything yet everyone expects that infrastructure built 50, 60 years ago should be in perfect condition. Unions prevent accountability and local governments are more occupied with blaming rather than addressing problems.

It's time to move to Canada (they only have a meth problem so it's not so bad)!!

[Anonymous]

D.C. is the city that Marrion Barry built. Or rather, the one he destroyed.

He's dead.

But the corrupt political machine he personally constructed lives on in the people he mentored and hired; in the population he lulled into complacency over crime and disfunctional government.

3 Barry administrations had a profound corrupting effect on DC. His destructive influence cannot be underestimated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I fly to and from Dulles internationally, I feel strange. The infrastructure in the countries we scoff at blows us out of the water.

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