Monday, February 23, 2009
Fair is fair
From NewsMax:
After 200 years, DC residents may get vote in Congress.
Residents of the District of Columbia have complained about
second-class status, and for nearly a decade many have displayed "taxation without representation" license plates on their cars to signal their outrage.
All that could change with key votes this week in the Senate.
Debate opened Monday on a bill to give the 600,000 people of Washington D.C. a full vote in the House. A new Democratic president, Barack Obama, and heftier Democratic majorities in Congress have improved the prospects for the decades-long effort that would certainly ensure another Democrat lawmaker in Congress.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by some 4-to-1 in the capital.
OK, I agree, no taxation without representation. And no representation without taxation. To all D.C residents who actually PAY taxes and don't get welfare, go ahead and vote. Tax-paying Republicans outnumber tax-paying Democrats by 4-to- 1. At least.
Least I be accused of racism, I want this policy to be nation-wide for all races, in all states. Fair is fair.
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Oh... Fox, that's really sly of you to insist on "no representation without taxation". But, you're too logical. Too American. Your suggestion will be attacked by racists, sliced up by hypocrites, smudged by the print media, and stifled by libs afraid of the gods of the House, Senate, and Executive branches. Your resume will be ransacked by drive-by looters and you'll be cast into NPR Hell by Satan Bill Moyers.
Oh, you've done it now. I'm betting that your name will be in the Madison, WI Capital Times, Isthmus, The Onion, and the Wisconsin State Journal. Wait 'til they read this in Berkeley. It doesn't look pretty.
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