03-11-2021, 06:54 PM
(03-11-2021, 06:44 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I've yet to hear an argument for why absorption into an existing state, which would solve all representation issues without providing D.C. undue influence at the Federal level, is less preferable than giving a single city two US Senators.
Because absorption devalues the votes of the Sate that takes in DC. You just like the plan of Maryland taking in DC because it dilutes the votes of an already Democratic state.
Absorption would be extremely inefficient because of all the different laws of different states. Every DC school, business, and Court would have to adjust to new rules.
DC already has more population than Wyoming, Vermont, and Alaska, so it does not matter if it is a "single city". You can't call it "outsized power" when there are more citizens than in some existing states. The voters of DC deserve their own representatives. and the voters in Maryland do not deserve to have their votes diluted.
