The DC Problem

Washington DC's situation is one that is both unique and problematic. On the one hand, as has been pointed out, DC has no voting representation in the United States Congress. On the other hand, as can be found in Sections 2.1 and 3.1 of Article 1 of the Unites States Constitution, representation in Congress was granted, not to the people en masse, but to the States. Needless to say, Washington DC is a city, not a state, nor is it part of a state. The reason for making this arrangement was to prevent one state from gaining too much power by virtue of being the seat of the national government. Granting statehood to DC, or the priveleges of it (which I suspect would be unconstitutional) would make it the most powerful state in union, in addition to being the most powerful city in the union. What other city in the United States has three electoral votes and a non-voting member of Congress?

Of course, this would probably be a non-issue were it not for the Federal Income Tax. If the original system of taxation whereby States taxed their people and the Federal Government taxed the States had been preserved, this would be a non-issue. Now, the slogan of "No taxation woithout representation." becomes legitimate, and there seems to me to be no good solution to the problem.