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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy! [/quote]

Why would any R members of Congress vote to eliminate taxes in a city that voted 92 percent for Harris? Not only is this terrible policy (in part because it would guarantee huge rent increases and drive home prices way up), it’s also bad politics. Not happening. [/quote]

How long do you think it would remain that way? The Republicans cou,d point to DC and say look what happens when you remove Income tax.

As for bad policy please you think they care? [/quote]

I just don’t think there’s any political incentive for Republican lawmakers to vote to give all of us massive tax cuts. Washington is the enemy.[/quote]

The incentive is that their rich pals could snap up homes and not pay taxes. While probably pushing current residents out.  [/quote]

Yes but how would they defend giving tax cuts to liberal Washingtonians in the first place? Again, think about how unpopular we, the people who live here, are to most Republican House primary voters around the country. There’s no way they will vote to do this. [/quote]

Easily. They would say look at the “hell hole” Washington DC is now. We remove the burden on income tax, limit local taxes and remove the consumer protections laws, DC will be turned in to Monaco. Plus all the staff, senators and representatives living in DC will not have to pay taxes.

Apartments will be turned in to condos, vacant office buildings with be either converted to condos or used as headquarters. It will be great! [/quote]

Yep except you're missing one crucial part - they'll make sure it only applies to the super rich.

They'll call DC a "special tax zone" that eliminates all federal income tax above $1MM, but keeps all the lower brackets in place to make sure the actual residents of DC see none of the benefit. [/quote]

Yeah, but DC does the same thing all the time to its own citizens. Just in the opposite direction. [/quote]

You mean they give tax breaks to the poor? To the people who have the least to spare and often work the hardest? And you think there is something wrong with that? [/quote]

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