New DC Statehood Commercial

[Anonymous]

This new commercial is so laughably bad it reminds me of how much of a joke our city's local politics/politicians are. Looks like a D- "Intro to Video Making" project from UDC.

[Anonymous]

DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

[Anonymous]

LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!

[Anonymous]

Where's the link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.

Like what exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.

Do you know what disenfranchisement means?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.

Do you know what disenfranchisement means?

Taxation without representation certainly would be included in disenfranchisement.

[Anonymous]

I pay tax. I want representation. I’m not married to whether DC needs to be a state or not, but I would like to be repped by lawmakers who can cast votes on the house and senate floors.

[Anonymous]

If living in a state is so important to you, you have two options very close by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native

we need to be a tax haven like the cayman islands. I think it was gingrich who proposed that once, exempting dc residents from all fed tax. I would take that over statehood ANY DAY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!

And yet DC has added 100,000 new residents in the last 10 years, highest bond rating possible in hundreds of millions in reserve. We are beating fly over country in pretty much every economic metric. And still adding 1,000 residents every single month as a net gain, almost all with college degrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!

And yet DC has added 100,000 new residents in the last 10 years, highest bond rating possible in hundreds of millions in reserve. We are beating fly over country in pretty much every economic metric. And still adding 1,000 residents every single month as a net gain, almost all with college degrees.

I think those migration stats you cite are about 1-2 years out of date, but regardless, those are but two metics, and perhaps two good ones, but they hardly counterbalance the problems that have not gone away: crime, cronyism, refusal to stand up to incompetence, lack of middle-class housing, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pay tax. I want representation. I’m not married to whether DC needs to be a state or not, but I would like to be repped by lawmakers who can cast votes on the house and senate floors.

Or you could be like Eleanor H. "Representation without Taxation" Norton, who has lifetime tenure in the House of Representatives despite having evaded paying DC taxes for years.