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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers.  My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods.   The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.  [/quote]

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.[/quote]

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.[/quote]

Homeless and violent drug addict voucher residents have destroyed the quality of life in our NW neighborhood.  I’ll  take my chances with the drivers who spend money in DC and support CRE. [/quote]

Folks commuting between MD and VA via NW DC don’t spend money in the city. That’s the point. Not sure why you like superbugs.[/quote]

They pay a lot of taxes when they park their cars, buy their meals, and sit in office buildings.  Lots and lots of taxes that our Council fritters away on bike lanes and violence interrupters.  [/quote]

They pay almost no taxes just sitting in office buildings. The buildings pay taxes, but we don’t collect income tax revenue from non-D.C. residents who work in D.C.[/quote]

it's funny how you think this is a scam. i guess everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.

dc entered an agreement a very long time ago with virginia and maryland saying that we dont tax them if they work here, and they dont tax us if we work there. it's samesies on all sides and makes life easier for everyone. [/quote]

I didn't say I thought it was a scam. I just said they don't pay any taxes if they don't live in D.C.

I bet D.C. would, at this point, very happily tax Virginia and Maryland residents (and allow D.C. residents to be taxed in those states), but the Home Rule charter doesn't allow it anyway, though.[/quote]

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