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[quote=Anonymous]Unlike other multi-jurisdictional locations (such as NY City/NJ/NY/CT) DC cannot levy a commuter tax.  As a result, the city has hundreds of thousands of commuters who use the roads, policy/fire/ambulance and other city services which they do not pay for.

I would also submit that the presence of the Federal Government is the reason most of the city and suburbs exist.  Think: NIH, EPA and NIST in Montgmery County, CIA, Pentagon and all of the "black" agencies in the Dulles corridor.  None of these areas would be anything more than farmland if DC wasn't located where it is and agencies didn't locate to campus settings over the past 60 years.

And, FWIW, there are plenty of suburban families who use DC addresses and family members to send their kids to certain DCPS schools, given the PK and child care opportunities as well as select schools that people want to attend.  We are also the dumping ground for a lot of the region's homeless, who are routinely dropped off, bussed in or otherwise left to the city because of the generous but over taxed social service programs.

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