ANOTHER QUICKIE

One of you asked me recently if the Dems could make DC a state and I looked it up and said no. Article 1 Section 8 Clause 17 of the US Constitution provides;

Congress shall have Power:

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.

However that doesn’t mean that if the Dems pack the Supreme Court with justices who think the constitution is only a suggestion if it gets in the way of their agenda that they couldn’t do it and I have seen articles indicating that they could try to carve out all property occupied by the federal government in DC and then make the remainder a state. The immediate problem would be that that state would have virtually no tax base. A significant if not the vast majority of the money DC gets comes from the federal government.

Eliminate the issue and elect Trump and all the Republicans senators and congressmen.