- DC residents are the only Americans who pay federal income tax but lack any representation in the US Senate and have only a non-voting delegate in the House of Representative?
- The city of Washington used to be a part of the State of Maryland and its residents voted in Maryland’s federal elections, even after the District was formed?
- The people of the District of Columbia are on average wealthier, more highly educated, and more Democratic then Marylanders?
- That the District of Columbia is the only national capital among democratic nations of the world whose citizens have no voting representation in the national legislature?
- That District residents pay more federal income taxes per capita than the residents of all fifty states?
- That more District residents, per capita, have fought in U.S. wars than the residents of any state, even though they have no vote in the U.S. Congress which declares those wars?
- That the District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the United States that cannot spend any of its own local tax dollars without specific approval from the U.S. Congress, in which District residents have no voting representation?
- Two hundred years ago the District of Columbia was created on land ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland. The Virginia portion was returned to that state in 1846. It is now time that the remainder of the District be reunited with Maryland.
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