There's been a little bit of clamoring about the never-quite-buried DC representation issue since November 4th - there were rumors that it was even covered by a particular site that increases your sex appeal and decreases your cholesterol at the same time. The clamoring isn't entirely without reason; most Americans didn't notice, but a bill that would have given DC voting rights in the House came within a few votes of passing in said House last year. (Of course, most Americans wouldn't notice if a bill calling for the country to be renamed "Fatassistan" was making its way through Congress.) With Democrats about to take control of everything from the White House to your kid's student council, some have suggested that now is the time to push for full statehood, which would not only mean a full-fledged Representative in the House, but two equally-fledged Senators in, well, the Senate - all of them guaranteed to be Democrats.
But wait - what about changing the other side of the "taxation without representation" dilemma? What if, as the kilted Alex Massie suggests, federal taxes were eliminated within Washington's borders? It would create the closest American equivalent to what Hong Kong used to be - and also would, I believe, cause the city to become an economic mecca.
Wait a second. Obama. Mecca. Someone call Rush Limbaugh! He's been right all along!
