Democrats in Congress already pushing a bill to grant statehood to DC.
(www.zerohedge.com)
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Blatant attempts to tip the electoral scales aside, what is the case against turning DC into a state?
The entire intent of the formation of Washington DC was to serve as the administrative seat of the federal government.
It was never supposed to be granted statehood, because that would give it to much power.
Additionally, because of this people really weren’t meant to live there, and they shouldn’t.
The only fair option is to cede the residential areas to neighboring states and reestablish the federal zone as an administrative area.
Oh, good, let's introduce them to the hedge fund managers.
Fuck them.
From my perspective, because DC is not a state. And I don't just mean in a sense of "it currently isn't a state". DC exists for one reason and one reason only - to be the seat of the Federal government. Everything about the city deals with housing and supporting the government and its employees - a full 25% of residents are directly employed by the federal government And how knows how many lobbyists, and more.
When DC was created initially, it was intentionally separated out from states - written in the constitution, it says that there will be a "District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States"
And, the federal government can directly control the day-to-day stuff in DC. DC's mayor office only exists because federal laws said "OK, you can have a mayor".
DC is a literal organ or appendage off of the federal government. The federal government does not need representatives to argue at the federal government for the benefit of the federal government.
Thank you guys for laying out the case so clearly.
The alleged case for turning DC into a state can be solved by adding DC to another, already existing, state.
The only actual reason to make it a new state is to give the Dems more power.
For starters that would take amending the constitution and I doubt you're going to get enough states to do that.