Subject: Re: Virginia/DC Information<br/>
Date: Mar 07, 2002 @ 14:05<br/>
Author: shocktm (&quot;shocktm&quot; &lt;andrew@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-351443800">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@c...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Washington as a city name was abolished, I think early in the 20th <br/>
&gt; century - I can check the date.  There is only now the District of <br/>
&gt; Columbia.  Officially, there is no city with the name Wasington in<br/>
&gt; the  District.  We who work for the government are perpetually<br/>
&gt; arguing the  proper titles of things - like the mayor.  He&#39;s the<br/>
&gt; mayor of the District of Columbia.  The City government is the<br/>
&gt; District of Columbia.  Our letterheads have Government of the<br/>
&gt; District of Columbia on them, with a mail address &quot;Washington<br/>
&gt; D.C.&quot;, which means the name Washington for this place exists at<br/>
&gt; least for the post  office.  There is no longer any pocket of<br/>
&gt; county land or  other territory within the Boundaries that is not<br/>
&gt; governed by the Government of the District of Columbia.  What is<br/>
&gt; funny, though, is  that there is the concept of the &quot;federal<br/>
&gt; enclave&quot;, made up of  those pieces of land on which federal<br/>
&gt; agencies sit, to which the local government is in many ways<br/>
&gt; subservient, and over which the local  government has no taxing<br/>
&gt; authority.  The National Park Service maintains roads, etc., within <br/>
&gt; the &quot;enclave&quot; -i.e., the Mall, etc.  The  district government&#39;s<br/>
&gt; reign over these areas is minimal if extant at all.   The wallmap<br/>
&gt; in the building here showing the different territorial authorities <br/>
&gt; is really a jigsaw type of thing.  <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I am a consultant who has worked for several Federal Agencies and <br/>
have found going to DC to be intersting juristicaional. For example, <br/>
I worked for the US Courts for several years and the building I <br/>
worked in was next to Union Station but considered part of Capitol <br/>
Hill so that the Capitol Police could guard the building (a necessary <br/>
in that area). Here in Northern Virginia we have some of the same <br/>
problems. Many areas likly Langley and the Pentagon are federal <br/>
building and do not pay taxes. As part of my work I see other <br/>
buildings which are less obvious that are also owned by the feds and <br/>
do not pay taxes.<br/>
<br/>
DC always seems to be in the poor house and it would be logical for a <br/>
commuter tax, but as Congress really controls the Districts purse <br/>
strings, that will never happen. Especially when Marion Berry (former <br/>
mayor who got caught smoking crack and after going to jail get re-<br/>
elected) decided to run for an office again. Nevertheless, I wish <br/>
something would happen to mke DC more self-sufficent and have some <br/>
representation in Congress.<br/>
<br/>
-Andrew</div>