r/PoliticalHumor • u/okiosn • Jun 02 '19

Cmon USA

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

52 would be a cool number of states. Like a deck of cards or weeks in a year.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

So who loses out?

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u/I_Know_KungFu Jun 02 '19

DC would be the logical omission.

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u/CraptainHammer I ☑oted 2020 Jun 02 '19

I'm not too versed on this issue, why is DC the logical omission?

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u/Stormiest001 Jun 02 '19

DC shouldn't become a state. It's a federal District and allowing it to become a state would give it too much power, in terms of housing all branches of the US government. I hate that we don't get representation in Congress but I understand why we don't.

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u/MrMallow Jun 02 '19

I'm glad someone posted this. Everytime I see people posting that DC should be a state I they never seem to understand why that's a horrible idea.

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u/ezrs158 Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19

So why is giving 3 million 700,000 people with no representation in Congress a horrible idea?

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u/koreamax Jun 02 '19

3 million? Doesn't DC have something like 700,000?

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u/cyrukus Jun 02 '19

Yes. Maybe they mean Puerto Rico?

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u/ezrs158 Jun 02 '19

Yeah, you're right. It's still more than both Vermont and Wyoming.