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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should be raising taxes. That’s what DC voters voted overwhelmingly for. People want the rich paying their fair share. That’s what they voted for. The council has a mandate for giving the voters what they want. [/quote]

LOL it's one thing when federal income taxes go up (everyone affected in all states) but this strategy is entirely unsustainable when people can just move across the border to Virginia or Maryland. You can't keep drawing water from a shrinking well forever[/quote]

Then let them move. Who wants to be in some lame lifeless suburban encampment, spending your life in your car or riding endless red line or silver line trains just to get into the city? No thanks.

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The boring-ass gentrifiers have brought  Disneyfication and their lame suburban tastes to the city. Tax them.[/quote]

You mean white people between the ages of 20 and 34? They're the ones who have driven gentrification and made DC a much, much, much whiter city than it was 20 years ago. Sure, tax them but the problem is they don't have much money. [/quote]

The real problem was the white flight that happened before that and the ongoing segregation and racism in our nation.  FIFY[/quote]

sounds like you're one of the white gentrifiers. welcome to dc. [/quote]

Actually, I was born here.  [/quote]

Right. No one who has lived here for any significant amount of time is confused about who is gentrifying the city. It's white twenty- and thirty-somethings. Those luxury condos you live in? They were built by developers who bought up, and then razed, single family homes that had been owned by Black Washingtonians since forever.  That's how DC became the only major city in this country that is getting whiter. [/quote]

This is pure revisionist slop. Blacks didn’t own those homes “since forever” — they owned many of of them since the 1960’s to be precise. Many of the neighborhoods you are referring to were build in the late 1880’s, representing 80 years of non black ownership prior to the 60’s.

Another revisionist element to what you are writing is that you are acting like these neighborhoods were some black utopia and then the evil white developers kicked them out and razed their well kept homes. The majority of these neighborhoods were the textbook definition of urban blight. My family has owned properties off of 9th and 10th in Shaw since the 60’s — you have no idea what it looked like prior to gentrification. [/quote]

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