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Anonymous wrote:DC, get ready for Trump rule.

Not with a Democratic Congress.

33 senate Democrats voted to kill that crazy DC crime bill. The national Ds aren’t crazy like the DC socialists.

That “crazy DC crime bill” would have actually made it much easier to prosecute a whole bunch of crimes. But a few reactionary rabble rousers latched on to a couple of things in the bill that were, for all intents and purposes practically irrelevant, and used them to mislead folk yourself for their personal profit and/or political gain. So congrats, you helped make the job of MPD, the DCAG, and the USAO harder. If you care to learn more about how we were all scammed, you could do worse than pointing your browser here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

Without the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421011936/https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC, get ready for Trump rule.

Not with a Democratic Congress.

33 senate Democrats voted to kill that crazy DC crime bill. The national Ds aren’t crazy like the DC socialists.

That “crazy DC crime bill” would have actually made it much easier to prosecute a whole bunch of crimes. But a few reactionary rabble rousers latched on to a couple of things in the bill that were, for all intents and purposes practically irrelevant, and used them to mislead folk yourself for their personal profit and/or political gain. So congrats, you helped make the job of MPD, the DCAG, and the USAO harder. If you care to learn more about how we were all scammed, you could do worse than pointing your browser here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

If people do actually leave the city over this, and it is a big IF, we will be left with a tax base that isn't sufficient to cover JLG’s promises … not only that, the fed layoffs have cratered the middle class so we will be left with no rich people to fund our schools and the rest of us barely scrapping by and some of us having to explain basic economics to our neighbors.

Huh? Why would you send your kids to school here if your primary residence is elsewhere?

Let me break it down for you, Mr. “You are making yourself out to be more important”:

1) A person/ couple who declares a home in another jurisdiction to be their primary is a person/ couple who is rich. They have TWO Homes.

2) That RICH person/couple currently pay 11% in DC income tax on income substantial enough to have 2 homes. DC loses those tax dollars.

3) In order to claim another residence as your primary, you need to live there 181 days a year. That means you wouldn’t be using the schools anyway.

4) 181 days out of DC not only means no income tax from that person/couple, it also means that they aren’t spending their discretionary income in DC in our restaurants, stores, gyms, salons and theaters.

5) DC cannot afford to lose its rich tax payers. Period. They pay for our schools, our roads, our government, and our trash. Please be real.

Anonymous wrote:If DC isn’t your primary home, DC loses the 11% it charges on income tax. Homestead deduction is a pittance compared to the income tax AND we will absolutely miss the income.

This is why we are screwed. People who voted for JLG don’t have ample skin in the game and are just reactionary.

You also can't send your kids to school here. You're making yourself out to be more important than you really are in the grand scheme of things.

Ugh. Just what we didn't need - JLG triggering a MAGA federal takeover of DC.

Y'all are stupid.

If DC isn’t your primary home, DC loses the 11% it charges on income tax. Homestead deduction is a pittance compared to the income tax AND we will absolutely miss the income.

This is why we are screwed. People who voted for JLG don’t have ample skin in the game and are just reactionary.

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Anonymous wrote:DH’s first comment this morning: time to move our legal residence to our second home. I bet we’re not the only ones.

Don’t let the door slam you in the ass on your way out.

Oh, these people are not leaving. Just changing primary residence. And again, if you don't understand the difference, that's a problem for people like you and JG.

I don't believe your property taxes go down I your DC home becomes a second home. In fact, that is probably a great place to raise property taxes on - second homes in DC.

If it's not your primary home you lose the homestead deduction. Thanks for the contribution?

Lived in DC from 1996 to 2020. Each successive Mayor after Anthony Williams was worse. Bowser has been mediocre, and it seems like JLG will be another step down. But it ain't my problem any more

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Anonymous wrote:DH’s first comment this morning: time to move our legal residence to our second home. I bet we’re not the only ones.

Don’t let the door slam you in the ass on your way out.

Oh, these people are not leaving. Just changing primary residence. And again, if you don't understand the difference, that's a problem for people like you and JG.

I don't believe your property taxes go down I your DC home becomes a second home. In fact, that is probably a great place to raise property taxes on - second homes in DC.

Another page from Mamdani’s book? Congress may in fact not like that. Another policy to get their attention.

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Anonymous wrote:DH’s first comment this morning: time to move our legal residence to our second home. I bet we’re not the only ones.

Don’t let the door slam you in the ass on your way out.

Oh, these people are not leaving. Just changing primary residence. And again, if you don't understand the difference, that's a problem for people like you and JG.

I don't believe your property taxes go down I your DC home becomes a second home. In fact, that is probably a great place to raise property taxes on - second homes in DC.

Anonymous wrote:DH’s first comment this morning: time to move our legal residence to our second home. I bet we’re not the only ones.

Good for you that you have this option.

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Anonymous wrote:Legitimately difficult to overstate how screwed charters are. Love it.

It blows my mind that any charter family voted for JLG. Talk about chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

That happens a lot. Case in point: MAGA voters for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, get ready for Trump rule.

Not with a Democratic Congress.

That's not a given.

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Anonymous wrote:So, in sum, a bunch of uber progressives won with Lewis annd Oye etc, and now crime will rise once more because “teens” can gather wherever they want at 2am to street fight and get free cars to joyride. All the while struggling businesses and private landlords will be saddled with higher taxes and tenants who smoke, damage properties without recompense, and can’t be evicted. I’m liberal. I voted for Mcduffie. I basically just want a middle of the road candidate who gets that attracting business and development is the only reason this city got better after Barry. Fenty and others got that. Now we are back to a reactionary, protest vote that will make the city worse. Check back in a year and I guarantee most people will be like “what? How could this happen? Why does the city seems worse?” It’s because things never fking change. The political pendulum just swings back and forth. Ugh. I am so tired of the idiocy of so many voters. Like have some fking perspective.

This article tells you all you need to know about the future for delinquent renters. JLG codons this behavior and then replies on the government to bail put the developers because they caused the problem.

https://www.notus.org/metro/dc-housing-the-gale-tax-abatement

Just read that and there's an article about White - and his quote perfectly encapsulates my fears.

“D.C., we did it,” White, 44, announced to a packed room of supporters. “For 36 years, D.C.’s ‘Warrior on the Hill’ fought for us ... I promise you that I will carry your legacy forward.”

The legacy of no DC Statehood and dialing it in for the last how many years. He now has a cushy job he thinks will be his forever. SMDH.