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This year, like every year for the last 16, I have paid my tax bill to a government in which I have no representation. This year, it feels far worse than in previous years, because of the things done with that money that zealous representation might have been able to curb or stop. Statehood for DC

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Just yesterday I had to explain to the CIO of a modest-sized public university that DC residents pay Federal AND DC “State” taxes. Plus the fact we top the league table in per-capita tax payments. It took a lot of convincing to get through to him that we weren’t living in a tax-free zone. 😡