Anonymous wrote:So half of dc is poor af. You think once we get statehood, and there’s a good chance we will now, that dc would follow states like Florida’s or Washington’s tax model? Fk no. We’re liberal as hell and would probably choose to jack up taxes on the rich like California to be woke and out of “fairness”. Our entire city council is liberal as sht. It’s annoying. I don’t want to pay for some many ineffective social programs.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

What a bizarre idea. And since you want to flip Wyoming, you show you don't actually care about representation for citizens of any given state. If anything DC resident could opt to vote with MD. or VA. To go to a state simply to flip it is pretty repugnant and why we have the system we do in the first place.

To do this all you have to do is rent or own a home in another state + never vote in D.C.

Anonymous wrote:hahaahahahaa. Pretty sure they'd be a higher tax state

Anonymous wrote:So half of dc is poor af. You think once we get statehood, and there’s a good chance we will now, that dc would follow states like Florida’s or Washington’s tax model? Fk no. We’re liberal as hell and would probably choose to jack up taxes on the rich like California to be woke and out of “fairness”. Our entire city council is liberal as sht. It’s annoying. I don’t want to pay for some many ineffective social programs.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

No.

But I'm all in favor of letting DC residents vote in a congressional district, namely Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.

Anonymous wrote:Let DC become a state - there's really no good reason not to let a full-blown city become a state.

But move the Federal District to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, near the population center of the country, and build an intentional community there with no "permanent" residents, only people who maintain legal residency somewhere else.

Keep distributing most of the federal workforce around the country for remote work, rather than the beltway bubble. Keep executive staff only in the Federal District.

Expand the House of Representatives to 1,000. By diluting the Senate votes, this solves the Electoral College problem, for all practical purposes.

Build a massive new Capital for this House.

Build a national university, a national orchestra house, and move the smithsonian institute as well.

Pay for the operation of this intentional city with land rents. Let private owners build out restaurants, apartments, etc.

Make it car free, but with people movers, trams, and metro service. Operate a national airline out of TBN with twice weekly flights to every state capital and every major city, and daily flights to ATL, LAX, ORD, DFW, SEA, DEN, JFK

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

What a bizarre idea. And since you want to flip Wyoming, you show you don't actually care about representation for citizens of any given state. If anything DC resident could opt to vote with MD. or VA. To go to a state simply to flip it is pretty repugnant and why we have the system we do in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.

Technically don’t all members of Congress represent you? Maybe they should let DC residents vote in a congressional district of their choice. DC could work together to flip senate seats in Wyoming and other small states.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole premise of this is bullshit. DC was intended to be a Federal District, not a state. It is this way in an attempt to keep it objective to state issues, and so the US Capitol did not "belong" to any state.

They have representation in Congress, to say otherwise is an outright lie.

This is just a Democrat power grab in an attempt to add more Electoral votes.

Congratulations you’ve won the stupidest argument award. We do not have voting representation. Read a book.