(OC) The Mayor flies 51 star flags near the Capitol whenever there’s a hearing on DC statehood.
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We can only have 50 states, so we would have to merge two others. I suggest Vermont becomes West Hampshire.
I would never support an odd number of states.
I think it’s time to make 50 countries out of the USA and let them fight it out.
DC should be a state. Puerto Rico should be a state. Guam should be a state.
I like how none of these comments are political at all but just asking which states should we add or merge together to one lmao
Why should dc even become a state anyway?
For a country founded on “no taxation without representation,” the lack of DC statehood is almost cartoonish.
To anyone that supports DC becoming a state because “it doesn’t have representation”. Let me ask this for fairness. We let all the people born there vote because they didn’t choose to be born there. But anyone that chose to move there, knew the rules and does not get the right to vote.
I ask this because it seems a lot of people who support DC statehood think that they lost their right somehow, or the rules aren’t in place for any reason. This is why I can’t put my foot in any political parties camp. People who support this and don’t know the reason, but want to change the rules, are not capable of critical thinking. Those same people would come across a cage in the woods, think to themselves, “this is in the way, I’ll move it” only to find out the cage was there to trap the rabid bear.
DC isn’t a state because of a reason. If you educate yourself on that reason, you’ll understand why it’s important not to have the federal capital in the hands of sided politicians.
*Desire for taxation with representation intensifies.*
How about Puerto Rico too. Cmon. American Samoa too?
Yeah Puerto Rico should definitely become a state.
DC should just go back to Virginia and a new capital should be built in Nebraska.
We don’t need Florida, back to 50!
It is hilarious seeing people in person get flustered when I question them about taxation without representation. I keep getting accused of some liberal agenda.
I mean the obvious answer is that they could do away the taxation part but they never take that angle.
Puerto Rico’s star.
Dc is not a state it’s the red headed county that neither Maryland or Virginia want to claim
Its ridiculous. The residents of Washington D.C. pay federal taxes, but are not represented in Congress, so they have no say in how their tax money is spent. Taxation without representation was one of the reasons America rebelled against Great Britain.
That’s the price you pay for getting free museums. /s
Seriously though, DC was carved out of Maryland and Virginia, because people thought those states would get special treatment if all of the nation’s politicians live there. If DC wants to be a state then they should just rejoin Maryland/Virginia.
We can move the nation’s capital somewhere else. DC was selected because it was in the middle of the country at the time. The middle of the country now would be what? Kansas? There is a lot of vacant land there which could be set aside for a new capitol.
Whole fucking subreddit is just American politics at this point. I’m done
That’s so stupid
DC is corrupt. No statehood.
* Puerto Rico enters the chat **
I want this one so bad!!!!
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/America-51.PR_.png
Let’s merge all red states into one while we’re at it and we can have a one-party system like China!
The whole point of DC not being a state was so there was no preferential treatment to the host state by the federal government
You know it’s Unconstitutional to make DC a state, right? It’s charter doesn’t allow it to be.
My favorite way to start a fight.
* **FACT 1:** DC has 700k people with taxation without representation. It has reasonable support to become a state to rectify this.
* **FACT 2:** There are 14 million green card holders with taxation without representation (banned from voting in national elections).
* **SUGGESTION:** There should be immediate action to give green card holders the vote if taxation without representation is a meaningful principle.
Generates a lot of anger surprisingly quickly.
The entire reason DC exists is so that the capitol of the nation was not held under state jurisdiction. The entire point is for it to be neutral from states. Basic history.
If anything.. The land should be divided and given back to Maryland and Virginia.
Doesn’t it say somewhere in the constitution that the US capitol can not be in a state but has to be its own entity?
Go back to Maryland if you want, but DC is constitutionally mandated.
Never forget, DC statehood is a Democrat plot to sway voting in their favor
Genuine question, why make DC a state instead if just making it a part if Virginia or Maryland