Anti Federalist
01-18-2013, 10:35 AM
Good heavens, I think my head just exploded...
A multi million dollar tax tractor, carrying such a message, based on the District of Calamity's neutered status in the House...I'm speechless.
Yeah, I'm "represented" too. FFS...
Obama Inauguration Limo to Carry ‘Taxation Without Representation’ License Plate
By Matt Peckham
Jan. 18, 2012
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/18/obama-inauguration-limo-to-carry-taxation-without-representation-license-plate/
http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/taxation-without-representation.jpg?w=260
No, it’s not some seditious prank planned by Obama’s political foes, it’s actually a symbolic decision endorsed by the President himself. In fact the phrase will soon appear on all of the presidential vehicles for the remainder of Obama’s four-year term, says the White House.
“President Obama has lived in the District now for four years, and has seen first-hand how patently unfair it is for working families in D.C. to work hard, raise children and pay taxes, without having a vote in Congress,” said the White House in a statement. ”Attaching these plates to the presidential vehicles demonstrates the president’s commitment to the principle of full representation for the people of the District of Columbia and his willingness to fight for voting rights, home rule and budget autonomy for the District.”
The District of Columbia was founded when George Washington signed the Resident Act on July 16, 1790; in 1801, D.C. was placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. Since the capital district isn’t formally beholden to a U.S. state, it lacks a voting member in Congress. And yet D.C. residents still must pay Federal taxes: a sore subject for many of the city’s residents, who number over 630,000 — more than the entire population of Vermont or Wyoming.
A multi million dollar tax tractor, carrying such a message, based on the District of Calamity's neutered status in the House...I'm speechless.
Yeah, I'm "represented" too. FFS...
Obama Inauguration Limo to Carry ‘Taxation Without Representation’ License Plate
By Matt Peckham
Jan. 18, 2012
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/18/obama-inauguration-limo-to-carry-taxation-without-representation-license-plate/
http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/taxation-without-representation.jpg?w=260
No, it’s not some seditious prank planned by Obama’s political foes, it’s actually a symbolic decision endorsed by the President himself. In fact the phrase will soon appear on all of the presidential vehicles for the remainder of Obama’s four-year term, says the White House.
“President Obama has lived in the District now for four years, and has seen first-hand how patently unfair it is for working families in D.C. to work hard, raise children and pay taxes, without having a vote in Congress,” said the White House in a statement. ”Attaching these plates to the presidential vehicles demonstrates the president’s commitment to the principle of full representation for the people of the District of Columbia and his willingness to fight for voting rights, home rule and budget autonomy for the District.”
The District of Columbia was founded when George Washington signed the Resident Act on July 16, 1790; in 1801, D.C. was placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. Since the capital district isn’t formally beholden to a U.S. state, it lacks a voting member in Congress. And yet D.C. residents still must pay Federal taxes: a sore subject for many of the city’s residents, who number over 630,000 — more than the entire population of Vermont or Wyoming.