Talk: District of Columbia home rule

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Certainly this needs polishing and work. It's submitted as a start. This issue is a major one to those of us who have a problem with some citizens being more equal than others, but who also love our country enough to want to see its capital functional and well-governed. Ideally the District government would be an example in some ways of what American municipal government should be, with the acknowledgement that the District will always be a special case in that its major employer always has been and always will be a huge tax-exempt operation, the federal government, and will always require a level of subsidization far above that of other cities in order for it to function properly, and that its failure to function properly becomes a tremendous issue of national security and well-being far above and beyond that of any other city. Rlquall 03:35, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)