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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is such a bullshit argument. Nobody is forced to live in DC, and you can move to an area where you can vote by going maybe a couple miles down the road. The idea that the people who voluntarily live here (with full knowledge of the voting issue) are being done some grave injustice is just laughable.[/quote]

The grave injustice is that the people who live here without voting rights are paying more federal income taxes on a per capita basis than every jurisdiction in the US except Connecticut.  Either give me two senators (like Wyoming and Vermont---both of whom with fewer people than the District) or else abolish federal income tax for DC residents. [/quote]
LOL. [b]DC also received - by far and not even close - more Federal transfers than any jurisdiction[/b]. On top of that, DC barely bothers to find higher education and here again receives a significant and unique Federal transfer.

I actually would love for DC to be a state and compete for resources like every other state, rather than constantly have its hand to Congress like some panhandler. I can guarantee that ya’ll ain’t gonna like it. [/quote]

This is actually false. DC doesn't receive a federal payment anymore, and hasn't for more than a decade. In addition, DC taxpayers pay the most, per capita in federal taxes, than anyone else in the country. So, no.[/quote]

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