How do we petition no income taxes for a state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

What a bizarre idea. And since you want to flip Wyoming, you show you don't actually care about representation for citizens of any given state. If anything DC resident could opt to vote with MD. or VA. To go to a state simply to flip it is pretty repugnant and why we have the system we do in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

What a bizarre idea. And since you want to flip Wyoming, you show you don't actually care about representation for citizens of any given state. If anything DC resident could opt to vote with MD. or VA. To go to a state simply to flip it is pretty repugnant and why we have the system we do in the first place.

To do this all you have to do is rent or own a home in another state + never vote in D.C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

No.

But I'm all in favor of letting DC residents vote in a congressional district, namely Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.

[Anonymous]

Let DC become a state - there's really no good reason not to let a full-blown city become a state.

But move the Federal District to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, near the population center of the country, and build an intentional community there with no "permanent" residents, only people who maintain legal residency somewhere else.

Keep distributing most of the federal workforce around the country for remote work, rather than the beltway bubble. Keep executive staff only in the Federal District.

Expand the House of Representatives to 1,000. By diluting the Senate votes, this solves the Electoral College problem, for all practical purposes.

Build a massive new Capital for this House.

Build a national university, a national orchestra house, and move the smithsonian institute as well.

Pay for the operation of this intentional city with land rents. Let private owners build out restaurants, apartments, etc.

Make it car free, but with people movers, trams, and metro service. Operate a national airline out of TBN with twice weekly flights to every state capital and every major city, and daily flights to ATL, LAX, ORD, DFW, SEA, DEN, JFK

[Anonymous]

Ok, lets let any contiguous set of counties with a population of 1M or more secede from their current states and become their own states, something like what WV did in the Civil War.

[Anonymous]

So half of dc is poor af. You think once we get statehood, and there’s a good chance we will now, that dc would follow states like Florida’s or Washington’s tax model? Fk no. We’re liberal as hell and would probably choose to jack up taxes on the rich like California to be woke and out of “fairness”. Our entire city council is liberal as sht. It’s annoying. I don’t want to pay for some many ineffective social programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let DC become a state - there's really no good reason not to let a full-blown city become a state.

But move the Federal District to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, near the population center of the country, and build an intentional community there with no "permanent" residents, only people who maintain legal residency somewhere else.

Keep distributing most of the federal workforce around the country for remote work, rather than the beltway bubble. Keep executive staff only in the Federal District.

Expand the House of Representatives to 1,000. By diluting the Senate votes, this solves the Electoral College problem, for all practical purposes.

Build a massive new Capital for this House.

Build a national university, a national orchestra house, and move the smithsonian institute as well.

Pay for the operation of this intentional city with land rents. Let private owners build out restaurants, apartments, etc.

Make it car free, but with people movers, trams, and metro service. Operate a national airline out of TBN with twice weekly flights to every state capital and every major city, and daily flights to ATL, LAX, ORD, DFW, SEA, DEN, JFK

Makes sense to me as the country has grown. Except, send DC to Maryland. Then we are good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

No.

But I'm all in favor of letting DC residents vote in a congressional district, namely Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.

I am not and we have been here since before this was anything. Leave it as is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So half of dc is poor af. You think once we get statehood, and there’s a good chance we will now, that dc would follow states like Florida’s or Washington’s tax model? Fk no. We’re liberal as hell and would probably choose to jack up taxes on the rich like California to be woke and out of “fairness”. Our entire city council is liberal as sht. It’s annoying. I don’t want to pay for some many ineffective social programs.

Our local taxes aren't likely to change much if we become a state -- we already have all the programs you don't like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hahaahahahaa. Pretty sure they'd be a higher tax state

“They”

Well it’s clear where you’re from. Most (real) people on DCUM have lived in the district at least once in their lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

What a bizarre idea. And since you want to flip Wyoming, you show you don't actually care about representation for citizens of any given state. If anything DC resident could opt to vote with MD. or VA. To go to a state simply to flip it is pretty repugnant and why we have the system we do in the first place.

To do this all you have to do is rent or own a home in another state + never vote in D.C.

Not legally. You are a resident of a place where you reside for 6 months and a day. So unless you are in that place for that duration, you are not a legal resident for purposes of paying taxes or voting.

[Anonymous]

I'd like a lower income tax offset by a Value Added Tax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So half of dc is poor af. You think once we get statehood, and there’s a good chance we will now, that dc would follow states like Florida’s or Washington’s tax model? Fk no. We’re liberal as hell and would probably choose to jack up taxes on the rich like California to be woke and out of “fairness”. Our entire city council is liberal as sht. It’s annoying. I don’t want to pay for some many ineffective social programs.

How about two states? Since Bowser is no longer vaccinating Ward 3 or private school teachers I'm seeing a representation trend...

[Anonymous]