why is Statehood important (DC is pushing for it)?
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There are a lot of reasons. Just a few:
* Taxation without representation–DC residents pay taxes but have no representatives in the legislature to speak for them
* Autonomy–they can make their own laws governing themselves
* In the 1/6 attempted coup, no one in DC government could call in the national guard, they had to wait for the president or secretary of defense to do so. Since those guys wouldn’t do it, there was a wait of hours while the mayor of DC and the governor of Maryland desperately tried to get someone to do it. If DC were a state, the governor of DC could call in the national guard
* population: DC has a population larger than that of a couple of states (Wyoming and Vermont) yet they have no representation
* adds democrats to congress. If it becomes a state, DC will likely add 2 democratic senators to congress and 1 democratic congressman to the House. So for that reason, Republicans are pretty opposed to DC statehood while democrats tend to favor it.
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