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    State #51 - (D.C.)

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/should-wa...182922188.html

    A bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st U.S. state was approved by a Democratic-led House committee last week, setting the stage for a vote by the full chamber in the near future. If it passes, as expected, it will be the first time the campaign to bestow statehood on the nation’s capital has been endorsed by one of the chambers of Congress.
    Republicans in the Senate are expected to swiftly reject the bill, however, continuing a legacy of partisan sparring over the District of Columbia that has been going on for more than two centuries.
    The fight over where the federal government should be located was one of the defining arguments of the early years of American democracy — with Southern states refusing to accept any plan for it to be in the North and vice versa. In 1790, Congress reached a compromise that established a capital district separate from the states along the Potomac River that would be run by the federal government.

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    I think we're good at having just 50 states.
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    Honest question, what are the simple pros and cons one way or the other?

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    It's unconstitutional.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEF View Post
    Honest question, what are the simple pros and cons one way or the other?
    Pros: NONE

    Cons: two more Demoncrat Senators and one more Demoncrat Rep
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    If D.C. becomes a state where would the Federal Government be? Can one state be authorized to allow the Federal Government to operate there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    If D.C. becomes a state where would the Federal Government be? Can one state be authorized to allow the Federal Government to operate there?
    No, the founders specifically made DC a special domain of Congress so that no state government could have excessive influence on the federal government as New York had been accused of.

    This is unconstitutional, DC can NEVER be a state.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    No, the founders specifically made DC a special domain of Congress so that no state government could have excessive influence on the federal government as New York had been accused of.

    This is unconstitutional, DC can NEVER be a state.
    A move to Puerto Rico? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    A move to Puerto Rico? LOL
    They would never do that, it would make it easier to be rid of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    They would never do that, it would make it easier to be rid of them.


    And the bad part of that?...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post


    And the bad part of that?...
    From their perspective that is the bad part.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Pros: NONE

    Cons: two more Demoncrat Senators and one more Demoncrat Rep
    Partisan polio’s aside really, what are legit pros and cons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEF View Post
    Partisan polio’s aside really, what are legit pros and cons.
    There are no pros, it's unconstitutional.
    The cons aren't just partisan, the inhabitants of DC are all dependent on government in a much bigger way than most communist Demoncrats and giving more power to any communists is a con that isn't partisan.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEF View Post
    Partisan polio’s aside really, what are legit pros and cons.
    They could collect state tax , have congress person and two senators . None of that do I view as possibly good .
    Do something Danke

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    I must question the sincerity of love of country of anyone who feels DC should have two senators .
    Do something Danke



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