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District of Columbia, VA encompasses the soldiers at Fort Meyer, a lot of dead people at Arlington Cemetery, and the Pentagon. What's the point? Almost no one lives within the boundaries.
It shouldn't become a part of Maryland or Virginia. I will go through the reasons why, but this would mean locally collected tax dollars would be redistributed to rural areas of whatever state it is in. The reason why DC is doing very well right now is local DC dollars are local DC dollars, and this includes income taxes from people collected in the district. No other city has this advantage. DC right now is doing far better than other cities in the US precisely because it's funds don't flow into a state treasury.
What DC needs is NOT to be incorporated into Maryland and Virginia, but to be it's own state so it has full budgetary autonomy and a vote in congress. But it is the former which is FAR more important than the ladder believe it or not. Anybody who proposes this reincorporation into maryland or virginia does not understand this to be the case. We do not want either state to be meddling in our budgetary affairs, and we CERTIANLY do not want our tax dollars flowing to those state coffers. This is why DC statehood is the ONLY acceptable thing for those of us who are residents of DC. It is one of the few things those of us who are transplants and those who are natives really agree on.
The reason why DC is doing very well right now is local DC dollars are local DC dollars, and this includes income taxes from people collected in the district. No other city has this advantage. DC right now is doing far better than other cities in the US precisely because it's funds don't flow into a state treasury..
It's also because 25% of DC's budget comes from federal dollars and has the high per capita contribution of Federal expenditures than any state.
Absorb it into Maryland. It will fit culturally and politically.
DC will gain several Congressman who can actually vote plus State reps in Annapolis.
There is no way Republicans will ever agree to anything that adds 2 Democratic Senators. And Democrats would balk too were the situation reversed.
You clearly do not live in DC and did not read my post. I do not want a penny of my income tax, or property tax going through Annapolis or Virginia. Not one penny. I am not going to see my local tax dollars subsidize some rural parts of Maryland, or for that matter Baltimore.
No DC resident will agree to this.
Hell no.
You don't get this, anybody who even suggests DC goes back in Maryland or Virginia simply does not get this. It's not just about representation, it's more so about full budgetary autonomy. This is why for those of us in DC it's statehood and only statehood, which is acceptable.
You clearly do not live in DC and did not read my post. I do not want a penny of my income tax, or property tax going through Annapolis or Virginia. Not one penny. I am not going to see my local tax dollars subsidize some rural parts of Maryland, or for that matter Baltimore.
No DC resident will agree to this.
Hell no.
You don't get this, anybody who even suggests DC goes back in Maryland or Virginia simply does not get this. It's not just about representation, it's more so about full budgetary autonomy. This is why for those of us in DC it's statehood and only statehood, which is acceptable.
DC should just be city state with better federal representation...
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