'Taxation without representation - American-stye'

[sekker]

What do you call a city where its citizens 'pay more federal taxes per capita than any state in the country and more than over 20 states overall'?

Love that this is named after our first President, too.









Washington, DC.



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/54956...econd-time

[Speedy]

DC should secede.

[sekker]

Speedy wrote:
DC should secede.

Maybe they can start by throwing the trash into the Potomac River.... But then, there wouldn't be enough Senators to approve the bill!

[Acer]

D.C. as a politics-free unit was an interesting idea for the time. But turns out it sucks.

[sekker]

Acer wrote:
D.C. as a politics-free unit was an interesting idea for the time. But turns out it sucks.

Was supposed to be 3 blocks, not an entire city.

[rjmacs]

sekker wrote:
[quote=Acer]
D.C. as a politics-free unit was an interesting idea for the time. But turns out it sucks.

Was supposed to be 3 blocks, not an entire city.
Cite?

The federal district was created as a 10-mile square parcel taken from sections of Maryland and Virginia. Virginia requested retrocession of Alexandria, the area west of the Potomac River, when it became clear that enslavement might be outlawed in the capital city.

[sekker]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=sekker]
[quote=Acer]
D.C. as a politics-free unit was an interesting idea for the time. But turns out it sucks.

Was supposed to be 3 blocks, not an entire city.
Cite?

The federal district was created as a 10-mile square parcel taken from sections of Maryland and Virginia. Virginia requested retrocession of Alexandria, the area west of the Potomac River, when it became clear that enslavement might be outlawed in the capital city.
The Residence Act set aside a very small original area, basically what is the current Mall.

https://www.ncpc.gov/about/history/

There were many stages of growth, but the umbrella that meant such growth was for people without representation is a historical artifact, not intentional.

[deckeda]

Waldman:

Opinion: The 5 dumbest GOP arguments against D.C. statehood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...statehood/

1. D.C. doesn’t have enough people (Rep. Nancy Mace, moron)
2. D.C. has the wrong kind of people. (Sen. Tom Cotton, racist)
3. D.C. is corrupt and mismanaged. (Rep. Scalise, asshat)
4. The Framers didn’t want D.C. to be a state. (said no one ever, if Article 1 of the Constitution is to be believed)
5. D.C. statehood is just a Democratic power grab. (every Republican, also simultaneously unaware each state previously admitted to the Union did so at the behest of the majority Party at the time. See also, Richardson for yet another history lesson/spanking: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ns/598243/

It’s worth reading Waldman’s assessment just for the dripping irony and hypocrisy of it all.