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Anonymous wrote:No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy!

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Anonymous wrote:It would turn DC into Monaco. Everyone homeowner should want this.

I’m a homeowner here who doesn’t want this, because I understand it would mean almost every renter gets pushed out by massive rent increases or by their homes being sold, and I don’t think something that benefits me but hurts thousands of other people is a good deal.

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

No one is pushed unless they sell.

DC is majority renters, and rent would go up considerably, so plenty of people would be pushed.

Anonymous wrote:Dumb question, I know, but if Trump follows through on his plan to take over the district, what tax laws would we follow?

For instance, would we follow the Federal level for the estate tax rather than the 16% levied now? They might abolish that tax federally soon. Just curious how local laws would be impacted.

I think you would not pay local taxes. It would be interesting to see any actual plan.

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Anonymous wrote:It would turn DC into Monaco. Everyone homeowner should want this.

I'll take cash over fake democracy!

Democracy Who was running the country in 2024?

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

No one is pushed unless they sell.

The Congress would need to strip home rule and write a new tax code for DC residents and businesses.

If it does that, it would also need to develop a new regime for things like building permits, zoning, DMV, streeet repairs, trash pick up, social services, affordable housing, healthcare etc.

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Anonymous wrote:No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy!

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.

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?

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.

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

This. They’ll figure out how to capitalize. DC has value, it can’t be just throw away. There is a lot of new construction, tons of empty offices on a well developed pleasant urban grid of medium density and with a decent public transit (which needs cleaning up). `It’s centrally located and has a mild seasonal weather. And cannot be entirely rundown because this doesn’t look good for MAGA projecting the image of a powerful nation.

Tech billionaires might take interest in DC and create another tech hub using cheap empty buildings and fairly reasonably priced RE for their workers compared to other tech hubs like SV, NYC, and increasingly more expensive Austin, which is now the same price as DC. Talent doesn’t like to live in rural land or satellite cities, they gravitate towards certain amenities, which this area has plenty of. Throwing it away would mean to throw away all the money that went into developing this over last several decades. Right now most of DC problems are from lack of people and soft-on-crime policies.

Anonymous wrote:No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy!

Haha, I might move back there

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think I've ever seen Popville commenters as mad as when someone suggested giving up on representation if having no federal taxes was the exchange in the bargain.

The rage mode was like if someone blocked a bike lane abutting an unshoveled sidewalk while committing a cultural appropriation and being a victim of the knockout game that was probably their own fault or having their headphones in.

I’m all for this trade.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy!

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.

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?

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No federal income tax! Watch the real estate prices go crazy!

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.

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?

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.

Anonymous wrote:It would turn DC into Monaco. Everyone homeowner should want this.

I'll take cash over fake democracy!

Anonymous wrote:They need to do this witn a stand alone bill and it will never get 60 votes in the Senate. They cant revoke Home Rule with the reconciliation bill because it violates the Byrd Rule.

The Trump admin can start by cleaning up federal NPS lands and actually prosecuting criminals + intensifying patrols on Metro.

If they repealed the federal income tax for DC residents they could fit it into reconciliation. We should all be advocating for this.

It would turn DC into Monaco. Everyone homeowner should want this.