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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]homicides now the highest in almost 20 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/31/2021-homicides-dc-rising/[/quote]
I read through all of the 100+ comments on this POPVille post and 100% of the many people who said they left reported violence as either the #1 cause or one of the principal reasons for leaving. 
https://www.popville.com/2021/12/big-population-loss-washington-dc-2021/[/quote]

DC is not geographically large. People don't have to move very far to find places with more space and less crime that offer easy or reasonable access to the city.

The city has started to slide. There are still some factors out there that can help arrest or even (temporarily) stop the slide. However, without a new approach to dealing with crime or even the public's perception of crime, the slide will only get faster in 2022.

Obviously, the ongoing pandemic will not help. Even if offices and other businesses start to reopen later this year, downtown D.C. will never again see the volume of people and business travelers it saw pre-pandemic. Working patterns have shifted too much.[/quote]

What is sad is how many DC residents have never experienced high quality city life.

[b]They honestly seem to believe that living in a city means you just accept rampant violent crime, terrible schools, terrible services, green spaces permanently inhabited by drug addicts and the mentally ill... and a city government that treats anyone above the median income as a cash cow to be milked but who is entitled to no other consideration. [/b]

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This is so true.  The DC reddit is the best example of this phenomenon: "just keep your head on a swivel, it's a city, what did you expect?"[/quote]
It’s the treatment “like a cash cow” that bothers me the most.[/quote]

I view government as a collective pooling of the citizens' resources to serve the citizens' needs.

All but the destitute should play a part in funding government, and all should expect its services.

I feel that the progressives have increasingly pushed the idea that government is there to serve "equity," which means every program, every dollar spent, etc, has to be directed at a handful of key groups, mostly identity based.

Any middle class or -gasp- UMC or wealthy taxpayer should feel lucky if they receive any services at all from the government they disproportionately fund.  I am not arguing services should be provided in proportion to funding, but I -do- actually expect services.

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The sad thing is that people actually believe nonsense like you're spewing.

DC gives so much more proportionally to middle and upper middle class people.  In just the last couple of years I've received from the DC government:

A $500 check for buying security cameras. (no point in putting up cameras if you can't afford a house)

A $1,800 check for installing a permeable patio, a $200 subsidy on installing rain barrels, and hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of free landscaping through the Riversmart program (can't get that without owning a house with a yard)

A $500 tax credit for installing a Tesla charger (have to be able to afford an EV) and speaking of which

No excise tax on my Tesla (a savings of about $1,700 compared to if I bought a comparably priced ICE vehicle)

Not to mention they passed laws requiring Pepco to generate an amount of solar power in DC that is completely impossible for them to produce, which means they are forced to buy SSRECs, making DC the hottest market SREC in the nation, meaning any DC resident who owns a home can get tens of thousands of dollars worth of solar panels installed in exchange for selling your SREC rights, or you can pay for the system, keep them, and have your roof actually make you $400 or so every other month.But only if you can afford to own a SFH or rowhouse in DC!

Then there's DC TAG which gives $40,000 to every child, but only if they go to college which middle and upper class people are far more likely to do.

And yet you act like middle class people get nothing at all because why? Because a homeless person can get a few weeks in a dump of a motel? If it's so much better being poor in DC, you're welcome to give me all your money and go start living the life you are so jealous of.  
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