<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Damien Broderick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div class="im">On 12/18/2010 4:02 PM, spike wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">taxation without representation is tyranny, and must be opposed.<br>
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Curiously enough, I have been in that situation for the last seven years. I pay US taxes on my earnings, but can't vote.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Residents of Washington, D.C. are in the same situation.  They have no voting representatives in Congress.  Their license plates humorously reflect this: <a href="http://daviding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/20071009_dc_license_plate.jpg">http://daviding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/20071009_dc_license_plate.jpg</a></div>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>-- </div></div>Jebadiah Moore<br><a href="http://blog.jebdm.net">http://blog.jebdm.net</a><br>