Washington DC tax

This past week when I went to New York, I encountered a very stiff sales tax that wasn't there a couple of months ago. My friends who live in the city said I can thank Bloomberg for the tax. Damn republicans. We were talking about that a work today and I brought up the impending lawsuit of which the Mayor's office and the DC City Council are plantiffs. It basically is testing the validity of a 1974 law that bans the District of Columbia from imposing a commuter tax. About 600,000 people live in the District, yet over a million work in it. Hmmmmm, makes sense to have a commuter tax. Of course, my co-woker, damn republian, sees no reason to have a commuter tax. It'll drive businesses out of the city and it would be unfair on the commuters, he says. Well, no, businesses are in the city to be close to the government, or if you're not a governmental contractor, chances are that you work with other companies who are governmental contractors. If you're in the city, you'll stay, you won't care so much about a 1-2% commuter tax. No matter what a commuter does, they use the city services, the roads, trash pick-up, police forces for all the federal government needs and events such as motorcades and July 4th, why shouldn't they have to pay? But no, the repulican says it's bad, he also thinks that there are only ten homeless people in all of DC and all they do is rotate street corners. I think he needs to leave the suburbia of Annapolis more, not everyone is white, independently wealthy and well-educated like he is. He's also against a representation in Congress for DC residents. He says that DC residents don't need a representative in Congress. Well, I guess some citizens are more equal than others and deserve to have a representive in Congress, or at least the damn republicans think so.

If taxes got you down, there are free things to do in DC too, and interns like to go there too....hmmm....