Posted on 03/28/2021 4:53:33 PM PDT by re_tail20
There's been a lot of debate over the decades about giving Statehood to the District of Columbia. After all, is it fair that the people who live there have no voting representation in the U.S. Congress, but still have to pay taxes - thus Taxation without Representation? But making the District another State not only violates the Constitution, but also creates a problem - that of one state hosting, and having power over, the U.S. Capital.
There's just no way around the tax thing and representation. The people who chose to live in the District just have to accept this trade off of living in the neutral hosting entity of the U.S. Capital.
But there is one thing that could mitigate the situation. That is to create an Office of District Governor of D.C. to go along with the City Mayor of Washington. I'm still not clear if the City of Washington and the District of Columbia are one and the same. But whether they are or not, a Mayor is the leader of a City, not a District. A Governor is a more appropriate Leader of a Federal Enclave District like DC. So, the Office of District Governor of D.C. should be created by the U.S. Congress, and the Governor and Mayor can split and divide the duties and responsibilities.
What do you all think ?
DC should be reduced in size to just the core Government buildings and necessary areas around them. The bulk of the residential areas returned to Maryland.
I lived there 4 years.
I actually think all residents should be moved out. This area was set up for the operation of the federal government. Should be government buildings only for federal workers.
Agreed. The thing is that the State of Maryland does not want to be responsible for D.C. They already have enough problems dealing with Baltimore and Prince George's County.
Taxation without representation is widespread....I pay taxes...non of these a holes represent me.
I read somewhere recently that 17 percent of taxes collected by the federal government stay in DC - that little area between VA and Maryland keeps 17 percent of all taxes collected across the United States of America!
They’ve had a crackhead as mayor twice now
This is like saying you live at City Hall
DC needs neither a governor nor a mayor. It is a special district and should be ruled by a congressional committee. The residents should accept this or move out.
“...keeps 17 percent of all taxes collected across the United States of America!...”
That’s to pay the filth who are administering the country’s demise.
That is the key, return the rest to Maryland, don't create two more Democrat Senators.
I’m sure that was the intention of the Founding Fathers, that the district was for federal government operations only, and that there would not be permanent residents who didn’t claim residency from a state.
If the Founding Fathers thought about this at all, they probably thought that residents there would be congressmen and assorted bureaucrats from the “several” states, who would be legal residents of those other states. I’m sure they never envisioned a large city growing there, in which generations were born and raised in “DC” with no connection to any state.
Personally, I’m rooting for that landslide in the Canary Islands letting go and a 300 foot tsunami flushing the DC toilet. The marble monuments could be dug out of the mud and rinsed off.
Interesting number you got there. I like it very much.
DC should be shut down, and turned into a large open-air museum, of how not to run a country.
A new capital should be built. Someplace more central, like in Texas.
The 23rd Amendment gives the District of Columbia electoral votes in presidential elections. I can envision a situation, in which if a state is created out of most of DC , that the new state of DC would get electoral votes, and the truncated remaining District of Columbia would also get 3 electoral votes.
The constitution defines the federal district as being no more than 10 miles square if I recall correctly. So the district could be reduced in size, but not eliminated entirely without a constitutional amendment.
The 23rd Amendment could only be overridden by another constitutional amendment.
Wny is correct the average citizen is not represented by his congressman or senator.
I as an Ohioan am one of 723,031 person ‘represented’ by my congressman.
Our two senators represent 11,568,495 persons.
Just looking at those two numbers will tell you that there is no way that these three people will ever get around to asking my opinion on any of the issues of the day.
The only people of Ohio that have a chance of influencing these congress people are high level people in Ohio’s government, people high in Ohio’s political parties and rich and influential people that live in Ohio.
Rich people that don’t live in Ohio have a much better chance of influencing my representatives than I do.
The mere fact that residents of D.C. live in D.C. give them a greater chance at influencing my representatives than I do, because my representatives spend more time there than they do in their own state and district. That fact means that the resident of D.C. has a far great chance of simply a random meeting with the congressman than his constituent.
“DC should be reduced in size to just the core Government buildings and necessary areas around them. The bulk of the residential areas returned to Maryland.”
What it really needs is to suspend home rule.
If the Feds has been in charge of security in DC there would have been no riots there last summer and probably no breach of the Capitol on January 6.
The security of our nation’s capitols shouldn’t have to rely on a partisan hack mayor who is beholding only to her own local constituency.
Nope.
Simply hand it over to Maryland.
move next to the airport and complain about the noise. you knew that going in.
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