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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC certainly is able to impose a commuter tax or something similar that would hit schools and other businesses; plenty of other cities do that, and I recall reading it has been proposed in DC many times. [/quote]

Why, no, we can't.  Our Congressional masters have explicitly forbidden it.  Because, see, unlike other cities, we aren't autonomous and we're excluded from representation in the body that ultimately decides what can and cannot be law in the District of Columbia.  Of course MD and VA commuters are represented in that body and their reps typically end up on the oversight committee for the District.  Which, on one level, make sense (they have a greater stake in what happens in DC than people from more distant states), but it also means that whenever the District's own interests conflict with those of the suburbs, the District loses.

I agree with much of the rest of your post, but think it's important for people to realize that DC lacks powers/alternatives other cities have in dealing with similar problems.  [/quote]

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