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I live in DC so I don't have any Senators and barely any say in how my tax dollars get spent.
by eli 5y ago
I live in DC so I don't have any Senators and barely any say in how my tax dollars get spent.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoCongress voted to do that. They could undo it and make everyone a citizen of Virginia if they wanted to undo it.
- eli 5y agoOh great let me just lobby my no senators and single non voting house delegate to fix it. How about in the meantime I don’t have to pay federal taxes if I don’t get a day in how they’re spent? Also: neither VA not DC want retrocession and you can’t force a state to change its borders. So no, the answer is DC statehood, which is something Congress can do. It’s long past time.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoI doubt Congress would vote to give the wealthiest people in the country even more power, they would rather it just ctrl-z what was done.
- eli 5y agoI didn't realize there was an income limit to statehood.
- AngryData 5y agoI agree with your other points but isn't it kind of your choice to move to DC, knowing full well that they lack full representation? It isn't like DC is this massive landscape of a bunch of natives who have lived there for generations and are too poor to move 10 miles away.
- eli 5y agoVoting representation in America is privilege not a right after all. History shows us that time and again. Also I like DC. Why do I have to choose between living in the American city I like and having a vote in Congress?