The 51st state?

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Residents in the District of Columbia have been living with "taxation without representation" from Day 1. Today, they take their call for statehood to Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	We have you here Le Rinryksupp,
0:31.8	We are here!
0:47.5	Café Le Rinryksupp,
0:51.1	Xoán Gonna...
0:56.5	Ahí, ahí.
0:58.2	готов!
0:59.3	51!
1:00.9	51!
1:02.9	51!
1:04.4	51!
1:06.4	51!
1:08.4	We're here today to say the time for statehood for Washington DC is now!
1:14.4	We want everybody across these United States of America to know that we are just like them.
1:22.8	We pay taxes just like they do.
1:26.0	We send our people to war just like they do.
1:30.6	More than 200,000 Washingtonians have paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting for democracy around the world.
1:38.8	And they demand statehood now.
1:42.8	We pay for statehood now.
1:46.8	We pay for statehood now.
1:48.3	You know, we got no representation and we pay all this money for taxation.
1:51.8	It's kind of ridiculous that that was the whole point of this country.
1:54.9	And we don't get it.
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