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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m super liberal but if offered a tax haven status I’d give up Home Rule in a second. Would hope clean streets and corruptless government would be part of the package.  [/quote]

Taxation without representation.  
This is what the original Boston Tea Party was all about.

Pick one.  Either give us representation or waive federal taxes for us.
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You have a vote at the federal level.  You vote for president same as every other citizen.  You are a city, and you have city representation in your D.C. city council.  Where is this taxation your taxation without representation?  Do you mean you want to add 2 more D senators and send more Ds to congress for political purposes?  Yes, I suspect that is the gist of your argument.  Be honest.   [/quote]

This is such a disingenuous argument.  People who live in DC DGAF about the power balance in sending two Dem senators to congress.  They just want the representation.  Party politics should not stop people from getting representation for how their tax dollars are spent.  [/quote]

+1 I want I senator I elected to call if I don’t like what congress is doing with my tax dollars.  I want a *voting* congressional rep to represent my interests.  If MD would take us back I’d be fine with that honestly, but I hear they don’t want us so I’ll take the tax exemption.  Or DC Statehood.  Either’s good with me.[/quote]

You knowingly chose to live in the only city in the entire U.S. without Senators.  People make compromises on where they live based on their priorities all the time, moving to the burbs for the schools, closer to a job for a shorter commute, closer to elderly family members or grandkids, etc.  If picking up the phone to call a senator was your top priority, you maybe should have compromised on a different location.  In your case, statistically, I suspect you are a D, and your senators would be Ds, so doubt you would actually be picking up the phone and doing much calling.  Plus, they don't really care anyway; they virtually all vote party line except the couple who have a lot of Rs back home to answer to.  [/quote]

Third generation DCNative.  My required Government class in HS included lots of lessons the teacher ended by saying: “But we don’t get that.”
Why should someone have to move to be represented politically? You’re not really making an argument either way. Just saying that: it is what it is doesn’t justify or even explain why it should continue to be this way, particularly in a country that was founded, supposedly, because taxation without representation is a problem, and a critical lack of political rights and power. [/quote]

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