I demand a DC commuter tax

I'm reading Dream City and I'm tired of all the suburban parasites sucking out all the federal tax money our fair District so rightly deserves. You treat our infrastructure worse than a whore, at least a whore is compensated for her services.

Fuck you, suburbanites, and fuck you, Congress.

there should be a special, punitive tax on Teabaggers.  They are unwelcome in the District.

Shut the fuck up, loser.

Ha ha……if it weren't for surbanites heading in to town to spend their hard earned cash for dinner and bars etc. DC would be on a par with Port Au Prince, only without the culture and safe streets.

The infrastructure is a whore. ::)

Frank wrote:
Ha ha……if it weren't for surbanites heading in to town to spend their hard earned cash for dinner and bars etc. DC would be on a par with Port Au Prince, only without the culture and safe streets.

All suburbanites pack their lunchsacks with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a baggy full of grapes, a chocolate cluster bar and a juice, so your argument falls flat.

my brother is a "suburbanite."  he has a great job in dc.  he eats out every day for lunch.  when i go into dc, i eat at expensive restaurants and spend way too much money.  you lose, relaxer. 

Relaxer wrote:

Frank wrote:
Ha ha……if it weren't for surbanites heading in to town to spend their hard earned cash for dinner and bars etc. DC would be on a par with Port Au Prince, only without the culture and safe streets.

All suburbanites pack their lunchsacks with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a baggy full of grapes, a chocolate cluster bar and a juice, so your argument falls flat.

Not all but most… most suburbanites commuting are not eating out for lunch during the workweek.. maybe on Friday but..

People forget today's DC is very different from Marion Barry DC.. many many upscale/upper middle class whites have moved in.. they're the ones supporting the DC economy.

^^ RIGHT, it's an outdated book. Someone is stuck in the 90s. Is this your recommended reading for English 100?

Relaxer wrote:

Frank wrote:
Ha ha……if it weren't for surbanites heading in to town to spend their hard earned cash for dinner and bars etc. DC would be on a par with Port Au Prince, only without the culture and safe streets.

All suburbanites pack their lunchsacks with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a baggy full of grapes, a chocolate cluster bar and a juice, so your argument falls flat.

I must say, during the 20 years I lived up there I never saw anyone with a lunchsack eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, baggy full of grapes, a chocolate cluster bar and a juice in a restaurant on any given evening….but you must know better, you bad-ass townie  you!  ::)

Vas wrote:
^^ RIGHT, it's an outdated book. Someone is stuck in the 90s. Is this your recommended reading for English 100?

Sorry, pal. Dream City is essential reading for any true Washingtonian. Obviously I know DC is not what it used to be, for mostly good.

oh yeah, born and raised in DC?

I totally support a commuter tax. Because, as a resident of Arlington, I look forward to the massive influx of tax revenue that it will bring to our county as the private sector moves their offices across the river.

People in the suburbs love to think DC would be a bunch of crackheads in a shantytown without them but the reality is that increasing parts of DC are wealthier than the suburbs.

Vas wrote:
oh yeah, born and raised in DC?

I think TMUL needs to qualify himself a bit before continuing.

ggw wrote:
I totally support a commuter tax. Because, as a resident of Arlington, I look forward to the massive influx of tax revenue that it will bring to our county as the private sector moves their offices across the river.

You've got to be kidding me. WHere? the abomination that is Rosslyn.. I think we have enough…Things are fine the way they are.. the last thing we need is more "development" in Arlington. Its bad enough what has happened with the American Cheesecake Factorization of Clarendon

Vas wrote:
oh yeah, born and raised in DC?

Fuck no.

So why is this thread on the 930 club message board?

Holy shit . . .you're talking about a book written in 1994?  Has any city changed more since 94 than dc? 

Mobius wrote:
Holy shit . . .you're talking about a book w in 1994?  Has any city changed more since 94 than dc?

Doesn't mean the commuter tax issue is irrelevant.