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@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW Other cities don't get to set their own laws, completely independent of the workings of the legislatures of the states.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW What you seen to be saying, Mr. Fowler, is that Washington should get a political privilege larger cities don't - having two senators - so it will go on enjoying another privilege those cities don't (the level of autonomy enjoyed by a state).

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW What we're saying is that politically speaking, the city of Washington doesn't get to eat its cake and have it, too. If it wants to be represented in Congress, like the other cities, it has to be subject to the rule of a state legislature, like the other cities.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW A real state, not a fiction like "New Columbia" created just to create the illusion that the city of Washington wasn't being given a privileged political position.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW The privilege of this position being one that would be enjoyed by a relatively few ambitious politicians far more than it would be enjoyed by its people, in the short run.

In the long run, "New Columbia" would not be viable as anything but a beggar state.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW I addressed that point here.

https://twitter.com/_centrism_/status/1364976994853732354

There's no room for growth, no empty places to build in, unless one counts parks and burnt out vacant lots.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW The kind of poor person who wants the world to buy his liquor for him, and doesn't ask for much more out of life than that, might like this proposal, because now he and his neighbors in that 68.34 square miles of city would have two senators to do their rent seeking for them.

@metaphrenology @TweetPro13 @Fern26430103 @twCyborg @BW But what about the person living in Washington who just asks for a fair chance to earn an honest living, and finds himself in a city with no real tax base, and nowhere to establish one?

Should his wishes not be shown concern?

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