Do you support DC statehood?

[The Mikado]

Annex it back into Maryland and keep all the government stuff in New DC

Maryland doesn't want that, though.

You imply the federal government cares about that

New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

If you're doing junction, you need approval of the state in question.

Virginia actually wanted its half of DC back, which is how it got its half back. You can't shove DC into Maryland without Maryland wanting it.

[The Mikado]

DC Statehood defeats the purpose of it being.....DC.

Society marches on. What may have made sense in the 1790s doesn't necessarily make sense in the 2020s.

Many other countries have federal districts that get voting representation but are constitutionally distinct from states. DC statehood is a cynical way of solving the real problem.

The only legitimate solutions are - a) not taxing DC, removing the taxation without representation issue, although it would need to be done in such a way as to not turn DC into a tax haven, b) amending the Constitution to give them voting representation in Congress.

Quite aside from the representation issue, DC doesn't have true Home Rule in the way any other jurisdiction does in that Congress can (and regularly does) forbid the DC City Council from pursuing certain policies in a way they don't do to any state. Congress holds DC's pursestrings and certain jackass Members of Congress (Hint hint, Andy Harris R-MD) see pushing right wing policies that DC has no interest in onto DC as a good way to build up right wing bona fides with the folks back home. Statehood solves this problem and simply giving DC a Congressman and even Senators doesn't solve it.

EDIT: I lived in DC for 7 years, so I had a long time where I was hearing people talk about this issue semi-regularly.