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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They used to just say "taxation without representation".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You can still request the old plates, but nobody does. DC residents who aren't in politics are incredibly politically homogenous. You would think the rest of the country would take that as a clue about how things actually work there...

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  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    This is why I never supported felons losing their right to vote. If they've served their nickel, give them the vote back. Otherwise, if they get a job and put 30% of their paycheck to paying taxes, then they're being taxed without representation.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Well you can also argue that due to the silly two party system no one (in the usa) is really represented. Hell its been forever since I can even remember ether party doing some representation (well maybe the Alaska rep selling out the rest of the nation for a bit of money? Maybe alaskens are dicks).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hank Green has a good video about that. I thought I understood gerrymandering before, but I didn't fully appreciate all the implications until I watched that.

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    I agree, but it's lesser to me than the means of disenfranchisement. If felons can't vote and using cannabis is a felony then the deck is actively stacked against changing that law. And it gets darker when things like sodomy are felonies and with laws like tough on crime laws or prison reform. Felons are the people most severely impacted by the law

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)
  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It because D.C. is not a state, and they have no Representative in Congress.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s somehow worse than that they DO have (kinda) reps Eleanor Holmes Norton DC house reps are “delegates” so they cant vote on bills but the position still exist.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well to my understanding, aren’t tax related things not controlled by them? Does Congress as a whole control those things?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Congress has the right to levy taxes under the Taxing and Spending Clause. However non voting members can’t vote on any laws and therefore can’t vote on tax related law . Wikipedia says They receive compensation, benefits, and the ability to send mail without a stamp like full house members. I’ve heard they can vote in committees but I can’t confirm that

    so I would say this is taxation without representation. Or taxation with the most minimal amount of powerless representation possible. But that’s a longer phrase

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In theory, because every congressperson lives in DC a large fraction of the year, every one represents them. Giving them their own rep on top of that would give them too much power. In theory.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Congressmembers are only a minuscule fraction of the population of DC. And the rest of the population never voted for any of them. So the vast, vast majority of people in DC are unrepresented.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes, it's silly to say they're being represented. They don't chose them and Representatives and Senators don't give a hoot about what D.C. residents want on a national stage. They barely care what their constituents want. I have never heard them even mention the people of D.C. when talking about issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It would not be giving D.C. too much power because ultimately Congress governs D.C., not the local government which exists entirely at Congress's pleasure, so this would at least give D.C. some influence over its own government rather than none, which is what it currently has.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If Trump United States makes enough money on Tic-Toc he can afford to pay everyone's taxes for them.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you listen to that bull...

    Like a watched it for 3 minutes or so..

    He said it would allow us citizens not to be worried about propaganda but also said when asked that he would want the whole thing to just have maga stuff in it... he can't even keep up the lies man

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Most State Roads have a cutout in the geographical shape of the State. Washington's is a cut out of George's face

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  • For a while there, this phrase was on stickers that people could put on their plates (IIRC). At some point, the city council and DMV got involved and just printed the motto/complaint right on the plates.

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