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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh? Why would you send your kids to school here if your primary residence is elsewhere?

Let me break it down for you, Mr. “You are making yourself out to be more important”:

1) A person/ couple who declares a home in another jurisdiction to be their primary is a person/ couple who is rich.  They have TWO Homes.

2) That RICH person/couple currently pay 11% in DC income tax on income substantial enough to have 2 homes.  DC loses those tax dollars.

3) In order to claim another residence as your primary, you need to live there 181 days a year.  That means you wouldn’t be using the schools anyway.

4) 181 days out of DC not only means no income tax from that person/couple, it also means that they aren’t spending their discretionary income in DC in our restaurants, stores, gyms, salons and theaters.

5) DC cannot afford to lose its rich tax payers.  Period.  They pay for our schools, our roads, our government, and our trash.  Please be real.

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My husband and I recently sold our home in DC. We are renting a luxury apartment in DC. Our kids are grown and we are looking at the buying a beach house elsewhere. We have decided that if JLG is crazy, we will either move to MD or VA as our primary resident, or use our second home as our primary residence. It's so easy for us to do. People act like it's a major thing. It isn't. We are the people that she doesn't want to lose. We live in Ward 3 and I don't want to change my residency, but we don't actually have anything that ties us to live in DC proper.[/quote]

So many of us know folks who have the work and life flexibility to do this.  
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