Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:35PM (#27913957)

Congress voted to do that. They could undo it and make everyone a citizen of Virginia if they wanted to undo it.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by eli on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:09AM (#27919054)

Oh great let me just lobby my no senators and single non voting house delegate to fix it. How about in the meantime I don’t have to pay federal taxes if I don’t get a day in how they’re spent?

Also: neither VA not DC want retrocession and you can’t force a state to change its borders. So no, the answer is DC statehood, which is something Congress can do. It’s long past time.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:22PM (#27922433)

I doubt Congress would vote to give the wealthiest people in the country even more power, they would rather it just ctrl-z what was done.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by eli on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:30AM (#27931063)

I didn't realize there was an income limit to statehood.

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