Do you support DC statehood?

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For those who oppose DC statehood, what's your realistic (i.e. not some shooting the moon solution like a constitutional amendment giving it non-statehood statehood or retrocession which vigorously opposed by Maryland and DC)?

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Moreover, there are plenty of federal countries where the capitol is in a state (or equivalent) and/or the Federal District has the equivalent of statehood. Canada and Mexico spring to mind. Though both of those countries have challenges I'd argue that neither of them come from the issue's which you seem concerned with.

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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.

Hard agree.

What policies has Harris tried to push btw? Aware of the governance issues but hadn't heard much about the specifics as a non-DMV resident.

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No.

I would be OK redrawing the boundaries of the Federal City with large parts of Washington, DC returned to VA and MD, with a capital zone containing the White House, Capitol, SCOTUS, Pentagon, and most major Government offices as part of the Federal City.  An area with minimal residents managed by a Congressional committee.

What do you propose to do about the 23rd amendment?