Well... I suppose - if we had to - we could just let the people who are residents of DC vote as part of an adjacent, existing liberal state... They couldn’t really change much that way, and they could finally shut up. They wouldn’t get any more senators... and their population is probably small enough that it wouldn’t add any representatives to an adjacent state, or at most, maybe one....
The problem would be finding a state - even a liberal one - that would want that sink-hole voting in and as a part of their state!
Nawww... on second thought; forget I said that! I think I was out in the sun too long today!
Let ‘em whine!
Suggestion: Reduce the “District of Columbia” to a very small area, that encompasses the immediate area of the Capitol Building, the White (Hut), and the Supreme Court building, and allow the remainder to revert to Maryland, as a new additional county, or divide the metro area up, so it reverts as part of Montgomery county, and part of Prince George’s county.
A similar thing was once done to another part of the original District, in that Arlington county, Virginia,was created, there was no contest about that.
The District, as it now exists, hardly makes a decent township. Never could be a viable state.
And as far as “Taxation without Representation” goes, the thinly disguised “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011” tax legislation pretty much does just that for most Americans.
Want more examples of “taxation without representation”? Try the built-in inflation that shall soon be hitting EVERY pocketbook out there, which is a largely invisible but very real tax on all our future income, feeding as it does the enormous and growing perennial national debt that never ceases growing.
As for an adjustment period for Maryland, to absorb the costs of supporting this new population expansion - the Federal government gives Maryland $10B the first year, then as the new communities get integrated into the economies of Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, reduce the Federal payment by $1B each year until year 10, when the Federal payment becomes zero.