A Proposal: Georgetown Should Secede From DC
Wisconsin Avenue by Jim Malone
In a post that is sure to incite the ire of DC residents, Carol Joynt, a DC columnist for New York Social Diary, discusses the benefits for Georgetown if it seceded from the rest of the city. (Hat tip to We Love DC for pointing out this post.)
To her credit, Joynt recognizes that this is completely unlikely to happen, but she puts forward her reasons anyway.
She notes that since DC is not going to get home rule, Georgetown should become the City of Georgetown with its own mayor, school system, police force, etc. She writes that while Georgetown residents pay high taxes, only a small proportion of those taxes actually come back to benefit the area.
Joynt also laments that the community organizations and council member that Georgetown shares with “too wide a swath of the city” do not adequately represent the issues facing neighborhood residents.
Toward the end of her post, her logic begins to get hard to follow (if it wasn’t already), but she does want to make sure that, even if Georgetown secedes, the federal government will still have the neighborhood’s back if there is a terrorist attack.
“I’m not going to go on and on here, but when you think about it there are many more favorables than negatives to seceding.
I would, however, ask the Federal government to provide our national defense.”
Needless to say, your comments are welcome.
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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a_proposal_georgetown_should_secede_from_dc/1860.
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