TIL: Washington DC license plates say "End Taxation Without Representation"
TIL: Washington DC license plates say "End Taxation Without Representation"
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Vehicle registration plates of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia
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They used to just say "taxation without representation".
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Thank you. I had to rub my eyes and make sure I wasn't imagining things.
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That's way more accurate. I don't feel very represented and I still get taxed.
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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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Yeah, they should
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It because D.C. is not a state, and they have no Representative in Congress.
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Yes, that's what I was referencing
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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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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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TrumpUnited States makes enough money on Tic-Toc he can afford to pay everyone's taxes for them.-
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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Too stupid to be any good.
Chaos is where incompetence hides
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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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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.
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).
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.
Not only that, but losing voting rights wasn't part of the sentence. If they want to take away rights (even in jail), it should be a part of the sentence, not something shoehorned in quietly.
I hate to break it to you but you pay far more than 30% of your money in taxes.
You don't know that. They might be very rich.
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