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Should DC Become the 51st State?

Should DC Become the 51st State?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 20.8%

  • No

    Votes: 55 76.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Total voters
    72
rocket88 said:
A city whose residents are second class citizens.
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The portion of Washington D.C. south of the Potomac River was given back to Virginia. Give the northern portion back to Maryland. Washington D.C. can still retain its name and still be the capital of the U.S. It is just another city, like the state capitals, only D.C. is the capital of the U.S.
 
Perotista said:
The portion of Washington D.C. south of the Potomac River was given back to Virginia. Give the northern portion back to Maryland. Washington D.C. can still retain its name and still be the capital of the U.S. It is just another city, like the state capitals, only D.C. is the capital of the U.S.
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That solution has been consistently ignored since I suggested it. It doesn't have the "desired" outcome.
 
TeleKat said:
And I'm proud of it because it makes your blood boil. :)
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Even if it weren't perverted, it'd be rather unhealthy to live to spite someone else, especially someone you've never actually met. Of course habitually engaging in the unnatural vice is unhealthy in itself, so ...

In any case, I wasn't expressing disgust in that post, I was only informing him that his polemic was not discrediting.
 
Paleocon said:
Even if it weren't perverted, it'd be rather unhealthy to live to spite someone else
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I don't live to spite you, I just consider it bonus points that my sexuality pisses you off. I do wish, however, that you'd learn to mind your own business on that front. But since you don't, I might as well have fun with it. ;)

Of course habitually engaging in the unnatural vice is unhealthy in itself
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Yeah, those damn processed foods, vaccines, and polyester clothing! Oh yeah and **** air conditioning, that's unnatural too.
 
TeleKat said:
I don't live to spite you, I just consider it bonus points that my sexuality pisses you off. I do wish, however, that you'd learn to mind your own business on that front. But since you don't, I might as well have fun with it. ;)
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Well I do not take any pleasure from the fact that I annoy you.

TeleKat said:
Yeah, those damn processed foods, vaccines, and polyester clothing! Oh yeah and **** air conditioning, that's unnatural too.
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Why are you so intellectually dishonest?
 
AliHajiSheik said:
That solution has been consistently ignored since I suggested it. It doesn't have the "desired" outcome.
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Exactly, if they wanted to keep the mall, white house, capital hill and the little surrounding area where no one lives or no residents resides, so be it. Now the president lives at 1600 Penn Ave., but he always votes in his home state. Sort of like the military. For the city folks who live and reside in D.C., make them citizens of Maryland. Let common sense prevail.
 
Perotista said:
The portion of Washington D.C. south of the Potomac River was given back to Virginia. Give the northern portion back to Maryland. Washington D.C. can still retain its name and still be the capital of the U.S. It is just another city, like the state capitals, only D.C. is the capital of the U.S.
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That makes sense to me. And if Maryland doesn't want it so be it. Those who choose to live in DC choose to do so knowing they won't have privileges of statehood. There are states within minutes of where they live where they could move if it is important to them. The last time I looked Maryland was mostly a blue state and Virginia is still thought of as a red state. So the people in the 'no man's land' in between even have an ideological choice. But it is ridiculous that DC is even a city, let alone being made a state.
 
TeleKat said:
Because residents of DC don't have representation in Congress.
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Technically, with the Electoral College, all of us can be victim of that...
 
AlbqOwl said:
That makes sense to me. And if Maryland doesn't want it so be it. Those who choose to live in DC choose to do so knowing they won't have privileges of statehood. There are states within minutes of where they live where they could move if it is important to them. The last time I looked Maryland was mostly a blue state and Virginia is still thought of as a red state. So the people in the 'no man's land' in between even have an ideological choice. But it is ridiculous that DC is even a city, let alone being made a state.
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Virginia is at least purple, went for Obama in the last two presidential elections, they have 2 Democratic Senators and a Dem Governor. But being purple still gives those who wish to move their a choice between the ideologies. It is not hard core anything.
 
jamesrage said:
DC is supposed to be kind of a neutral area. Maybe the residential areas can be absorbed by the surrounding states.
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Precisely. DC was crafted deliberately to not be a state by the same people who actually fought the war over the taxation-representation-thing, and for good reason.
 
Ikari said:
I don't know if they'd get an extra congressman, the number is well set and if DC is included into Maryland, then it should be distributed as nominal. They may end up with an extra congressman, but it's population based.

Regardless, I just don't think DC deserves to be a State in and of itself. I understand the representation argument, but statehood is a bit too much.
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I'm pretty much of the same mind. If anything I'm more sympathetic to making Puerto Rico a state.
 
Just have one of the ****ty blue states annex it. It will fit right in. Maybe Marion Berry can be the new governor.
 
TeleKat said:
DC residents are taxed without representation in Congress. The same type of situation, in fact, that started the revolutionary war. I say yes, turn DC into the 51st state so that the 645,000 DC residents actually have representation in their federal government.
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That's all we need two crackhead Senators and a couple of crackhead Congressmen.

BTW: Of the 645,000 DC residents, how many actually pay individual income taxes ?
 
No but I would support DC residents the option of choosing between being legal citizens of Virginia, Maryland or the state of their birth for the purposes of voting for potus, us senators and governor.
 
Hard Truth said:
I expect rabid denial, but reading between the lines of some of the responses shows that the opposition is largely due to fear of more representation of Democrats and/or non-whites. There is also the usual knee-jerk opposition to any change.
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And with that you smear all on the right with the usual cries of racism and fear of libruls. Nice piece of work, there.
 
Sure, I guess.

But why you make a comic book company a state is beyond me.
 
NIMBY said:
Why would you bring up illegals?
And why is it once again that all conservatives in this thread are against statehood?

I've already offered a great Missouri Compromise with also bringing in Puerto Rico.
That's what's called thinking out of the box one mentioned, something no one will touch.
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PR's vote overwhelmingly with liberals and democrats---so I'm sure you'd be all for it.

Puerto Rico, I feel, would be more of a liability than an asset. More Federal aid coming in than jobs and production coming out. Let them stay a territory like the Virgin Islands and Guam.
 
TeleKat said:
I want to give Washington DC statehood, therefore I must be anti-gun. I can totally follow that logic. :roll:

Where do you get this crap?
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What gun control ideas do you support? What infringements should be placed on the 2nd Amendment?
 
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