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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is nothing in the constitution that requires you to keep living here. [/quote]

Doesn't make it morally or ethically right based on the founding principles of our country.

I know, I know, you don't care.[/quote]

It wouldn’t be right if people were forced to live in DC. That’s not the case. People choose to live there.[/quote]

So under your logic, it’s ok to violate any manner of individual rights because people can just move. A state could legalize slavery and people who don’t like it could just move.[/quote]

That is exactly their logic.
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I promise you that most DC citizens would love to be free of the yoke of federal taxation without representation if they just were not taxed. Property values would skyrocket![/quote]

This thread is about the ethics of people DC residents didn't elect imposing their will on DC residents.

It's not the economy in this case, stoopid. Stay focused.[/quote]

So let Maryland or Virginia annex the roughly 58 square miles not covered by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. And ask yourself if you’d concern yourself with “ethics” if DC was 90% Republican. Answer: you would not give a sh*t. I promise you. [/quote]

Yes. Yes I would. Because it's the right thing to do. But if DC was 90 percent Republican, Republicans would be absolutely pro statehood and Democrats less so.

The morally snd ethically appropriate thing to do is to give the nearly 700,000 US citizens who live in DC the right to voting representation in congress, regardless of their dominant political party.

What do you think is the morally, ethically appropriate answer?[/quote]

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