Anonymous
Post 09/10/2018 16:39     Subject: New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:I pay tax. I want representation. I’m not married to whether DC needs to be a state or not, but I would like to be repped by lawmakers who can cast votes on the house and senate floors.


Or you could be like Eleanor H. "Representation without Taxation" Norton, who has lifetime tenure in the House of Representatives despite having evaded paying DC taxes for years.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2018 09:35     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!


And yet DC has added 100,000 new residents in the last 10 years, highest bond rating possible in hundreds of millions in reserve. We are beating fly over country in pretty much every economic metric. And still adding 1,000 residents every single month as a net gain, almost all with college degrees.


I think those migration stats you cite are about 1-2 years out of date, but regardless, those are but two metics, and perhaps two good ones, but they hardly counterbalance the problems that have not gone away: crime, cronyism, refusal to stand up to incompetence, lack of middle-class housing, etc.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2018 17:38     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!


And yet DC has added 100,000 new residents in the last 10 years, highest bond rating possible in hundreds of millions in reserve. We are beating fly over country in pretty much every economic metric. And still adding 1,000 residents every single month as a net gain, almost all with college degrees.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2018 17:37     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native


we need to be a tax haven like the cayman islands. I think it was gingrich who proposed that once, exempting dc residents from all fed tax. I would take that over statehood ANY DAY.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2018 07:41     Subject: New DC Statehood Commercial
If living in a state is so important to you, you have two options very close by.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 22:42     Subject: New DC Statehood Commercial
I pay tax. I want representation. I’m not married to whether DC needs to be a state or not, but I would like to be repped by lawmakers who can cast votes on the house and senate floors.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 22:11     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native


Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.


Do you know what disenfranchisement means?



Taxation without representation certainly would be included in disenfranchisement.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 21:51     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native


Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.


Do you know what disenfranchisement means?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 21:02     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native


Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.

Like what exactly?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 21:00     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
Anonymous wrote:DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native


Would love to hear how you justify 700,000 people’s disenfranchisement.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 18:22     Subject: New DC Statehood Commercial
Where's the link?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2018 14:40     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
LMAO, how embarrassing! DC cannot run a functioning city or reliably provide basic services like trash collection or emergency response. I really don't understanding this fantasy that DC could ever function as or become a state. LOL!!
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2018 23:09     Subject: Re:New DC Statehood Commercial
DC does not merit statehood and I kind of wish we'd move on . Maybe ask for a special tax status, like Puerto Rico- DC native
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2018 21:42     Subject: New DC Statehood Commercial
This new commercial is so laughably bad it reminds me of how much of a joke our city's local politics/politicians are. Looks like a D- "Intro to Video Making" project from UDC.