🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 09 Feb 1997 09:47:41 -0500, "joe@freemansoft.com"
<joe@freemansoft.com> wrote:

>For some reason I've never seen DC residents propose a moderated 
>news group for in city topics.  It would be a simple way of 
>making a public forum that DC residents could find and participate in.  
>
>As a side note, it seems that some DC usenet users have decided 
>that no on else has a say in the matters of the city even though 
>many residents of the surrounding area have at one time lived in 
>DC and have moved out for a variety of reasons.  It will be 
>interesting watching them have to change their tune when the 
>communter tax is put in place. I don't think their "taxation 
>without representation" speech will taste quite as good then.

I too wait for the day DC enacts a commuter tax.  Not like jobs are
rapidly evaporating from DC proper.  I am sure as soon as DC enacts
this little scheme to pay for its habits then VA and Md will do in
kind.  This will only further polarize the area and result in people
moving to were they work, or changing jobs to where they live.  DC
will be on the short end of the stick, it has a low business appeal
and this whole fiasco over commuter taxes will further tarnish that
appeal and drive DC further to the edge of financial collapse.  YOU
see this is a symbiotic relationship, for every reaction there is and
equal and opposite reaction.  Try a little cause and effect analysis,
you might be surprised at why some of these proposals are not enacted.

Notice that I did not use the "taxation without representation"
argument.  Some of use can look beyond that.


David Nixon

DC - "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice."
             -- Foghorn Leghorn