Budget Autonomy News Today

Yesterday that all presidential limousines will be fixed with the d.c. license plate of taxation without recession beginning this weekend to support expanding the districts voice. he said, attaching these plates demonstrates the full representation of the people of the district of columbia and his willingness to fight for voting rights, home rule, and budget autonomy for the district. last week, the d.c. council unanimously passed a resolution, asking president obama to use the plates, and d.c. ...

You? why cant you control your own government? >> there is a federal presence, we are a federal city. what they fail to recognize and acknowledge is that these dollars raised by the people of the district of columbia. we have our own tax system. we have property taxes, income taxes. sales taxes. those taxes are the responsibility of -- generated by the 600,000 people who live in the city. yet the congress intervenes whenever it feels like it and imposes its will on the district of columbia. if t...