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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Logistics?  When part was retroceded to VA it was also about infrastructure and who will pay for it-Federal? State? Local?  [b]virginia retrocession was about slavery[/b]

MD retrocession of mainly wards 1.3.4.5.7.8 is estimated at 75% of the pop  and 70% of the households.  There is the Stadium Armory which should also stay DC. New use for land?  FBI on federal property? [b]the federal district would be the white house, capitol, supreme court, and related federal buildings, as well as potentially, the federal triangle buildings.[/b]

States have a multiplicity of areas from rural to suburban to urban plus a multiplicity of business from agriculture to manufacturing to service industries.  They also have economic engines that support jurisdictions with low SES populations.  Maryland and Baltimore which used to be the economic powerhouse of the state for most of it's existence.

Local taxes- New State could go Virginia and tax on annual Fair Market Value. That would up the take on the old wards 3 and 4. New state could do whatever income tax it wants on residents.  Wash DC would be federal and people would pay local income tax to their own state.  [b]the taxes in Douglass Commonwealth wouldn't change[/b]

Persons living in the fed zone?  Would they move out?  Buy outs? If left voting status is the same as current. [b]only the president and their family would be living in the federal zone[/b]

Schools Impact Aid and anything federal- New State would be like everyone else. Anyone left living in the Fed Zone would be part of some sending agreement with New State or have it's own small school district.  Cities of Falls Church and Fairfax have them. [b]so if the president has school age kids, they would be eligible for DCPS or if they chose and indpendent school, that route, otherwise, not applicable

New State-buys all other Federal Property like the Zoo, National Arboretum, VP House keeping new borders of Washington DC contiguous. Stick the VP in Blair House even though it was bought in 1942 and US base of Churchill. [/b]nope, federal goverment would still own them, just like it owns national parks, indepdence hall etc.[b]
Objections to Churchill are not uniform throughout the USA. 
Zoo can move to land near Dulles since VA already has the Smithsonian at Air & Space near Dulles.  [/b]zoo wouldn't move. it already has a shenendoah property[b]

Revenue- contiguous DC provides it's own police, fire, schools, road maintenance. [/b]it already does, this wouldn't change[b]

USA - why are foreign government affiliated properties on Impact Aid forms?  They should all be paying standard property taxes. [/b]International treaty - US doesn't pay local property taxes elsewhere, same for foreign properties in DC as well as consulates in Chicago, NY, SF etc[b]

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Really, nothing would change other than DC would be represented with a voting member of the House and 2 senators.[/quote]

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