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Originally posted by baltassoc
I'm not sure this last part is true, if you look at the states as a whole. DC only has - what - 600,000 residents? There are a lot of people who work in Baltmore and Baltimore County who live in PA. There are also a fair number of people who live in West Virginia and work in Reston and even Vienna (and I know of at lease one who works in DC, but he's a crazy SOB). And let's not forget the other borders. I think there's a fair amount of movement over the VA-NC line, and the good folks in Richmond are likely to be pretty sensitive to that border, as it's almost in their back yard.
In any event, there would seem to be a clear net gain to DC, even if the surrounding states put in place reciprocal taxes.
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Right, which was part of my point. If VA enacted a "back at ya" tax on DC commuters, they would piss off people communiting into VA from other states as well. Sure, they don't vote, but the companies who hire workers from NC, WVa, etc., might not be pleased.
Anyway, it's all pretty irrelevant, because Congress will never let it happen.
As for folks from WVa, I worked with someone who lived in that litte tip of WVa near Harper's Ferry. Took MARC in -- about an hour commute each way. Did a decent amount of telecommuting,though.
