SolitionsOnlyUSA

Thanks, Tim. Sadly, hardworking, law abiding, and regular Americans of all backgrounds get associated with the wealthy then completely forgotten. WHO advocates for us?

I would rather reassign funding from useless or outdated federal programs to universal healthcare. I would not burden taxpayers with one cent given the current waste in federal spending.

Pools of ineptitude. The largest group photo of political grifters in the United States. Socialists on the take!

Washington DC spends approximately $31,000 per student. One of the highest rates in the nation. It is the worst school system in the nation. Consistently at the bottom for math and reading scores. Consistently at the top for truancy. Consistently at the top for graduating, illiterate children. The Department of Education is one of the biggest scams in taxpayer history.

I will never believe that a politician is serious about the laws of the country. Please allow the public to vote on issues directly and get rid of Congress.

Wanting a better life for you and your family is not a good enough reason for the US to grant you citizenship. Almost everyone on planet Earth, including Americans, want a better life. Also, breaking our rules is not a good indicator that you will be a good citizen.

Net contributors: Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Washington. They send more than they get. Cut DC loose and they keep it. DC’s the most corrupt local government per capita in federal convictions. Highest poverty of any capital city. Number one in federal grants per resident — double the national average. Worst crime for the dollars spent.

Democrats took money from everyday Americans and gave $30 billion in n profit to health insurance providers during the affordable care act disaster.

You know what, getting rid of predatory interest rates would be like a pay increase for most families. How are you coming along with that? It’s been decades.

We spend the most per student than anywhere in the world and have the worst outcomes in the cities where we spend the most per student in the country. To answer your question honestly, things would get much much much worse.

Brooke Pinto - Defender of degeneracy! Criminals and murderers are her real constituents. Despises the tax payer. Loves squandering other people’s money.

This is nonsense.

Wait, what!?!! Here in Ward 5 we had to create a separate neighborhood beautification committee because of the amount of trash left on the ground, specifically after trash pick up day. We have monthly volunteer trash pickups. There is also a grant program we pay for as residents, this is in addition to our DPW budget, that pay local business owners to hire people to street sweep. The 311 app was offline for 6 weeks and afterward had degraded service for nearly 6 months in 2026. I wonder how much we had to pay Accenture to fix it. A resident built his own 311 app using AI in two weeks. WE’RE GETTING ROBBED. THis contributed to the current rat infestation the city is dealing with. One of the worst infestations in the country. 311 auto closed cases without addressing the issue whatsoever. Also highest spend per student in the nation, worst results. Top in the nation in poverty spend. No improvement in poverty. Cato called dc the most corrupt local gov in the country.

I like it here. I just don’t want to be robbed by our leadership. What’s wrong with that?

Washington DC does not generate anything for the national GDP. Nearly every dollar made and spent here is a product of the national taxpayer — federal employment, grants, contracts, think tanks, lawyers. All dependent on every taxpayer in the country. For people who rely on the American taxpayer to demand more power to spend other people’s money is unreasonable. DC has one of the highest tax burdens in the country and the worst results on crime, education, and city services. It survives on the American taxpayer, not the competence of its leaders. Tourism? Twenty-seven million visitors spending eleven point nine billion — drawn by the Mall, the Smithsonians, the monuments. All federal. Hotels, restaurants, cabbies are a derivative of federal real estate. Charities? Over half of federal grant dollars flowing into DC go to nonprofits. Nonprofits are over a quarter of private employment. The metro? Direct federal civilian jobs are nearly ten percent of DMV employment. The Capital Region’s federal share is above ten percent versus under three percent everywhere else. Forty-one percent of DC residents work for the federal government. The inversion matters most. Every other city rises or falls with the productivity of its people. DC rises or falls with appropriations bills. Residents are tenants, not citizens, in the economic sense. When the government shut down thirty-five days in twenty eighteen, DC shrugged — because its prosperity is tied to federal payroll, not federal output. The government’s own accountants confirm it. Government added forty-five billion in real value in twenty twenty-three — a quarter of DC’s GDP. Professional services ranked second at thirty-eight billion, but that’s firms whose clients are overwhelmingly federal. Strip out the federal layer and the pyramid collapses. In twenty twenty-five, DC lost thirty-two thousand jobs — the only jurisdiction in the country to shrink. Unemployment hit six point seven percent, highest in the nation. DC pays sixty thousand in federal tax per person and gets seventy thousand back. Net taker at a dollar seventeen. The lowest ratio among major takers — but still a taker. Statehood locks that in with two more senators. Madison wrote in Federalist forty-three that exclusive federal jurisdiction would keep any state from dominating the national seat. He didn’t foresee seven hundred thousand residents voting ninety-plus percent one direction. The twenty-third Amendment patched a hole. Congress still holds the purse strings. The design produced exactly what it was meant to prevent: a captured city. Statehood isn’t representation. It’s giving voting shares to people whose income depends on the company’s decisions. DC doesn’t deserve statehood. It deserves accountability.

100% worth it. Answering to no one is freedom.