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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's great that GDS may finally have a real private school campus.

Welcome to the 21st Century Grasshopper[/quote]

Yup - a real private school campus for mostly suburban MD students who almost exclusively drive to the current school on a major commercial corridor that will forever kill any chance of revitalization of the Wisconsin Avenue corridor while costing DC tens of millions in annual property tax revenue.  Oh and the campus will require closing a DC street to get its private feel.[/quote]

DC always lusts for more tax revenue, but frankly the District government needs more tax revenue the way a crack addict needs more crack.  DC should address its "substance abuse" problem first -- the array of sweetheart business deals with Jeffrey Thompson are just the tip of the pay to play iceberg -- and get its fiscal and contracting house in order, before rubber-stamping ever more development in search of the almighty tax dollar.[/quote]

Well, how about this then: Perhaps GDS should just pick up and move to Potomac, or perhaps Germantown. Frankly, I'm sick of all of the MD residents flooding their kids into DC every day anyway, without paying for use of our services.[/quote]

What "services" do you have in mind, exactly?  The splendid roads?  The clean streets?  The police officers who failed the police exam 3 or 4 times and still got on the force?  The ambulance drivers who run errands while on emergency calls?

--A DC resident[/quote]

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