NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION

Should Americans Who Don't Pay Taxes Have a Say? (Robert R. Eberle, 07/08/03, Insight on the News)

There is a classic slogan in America that is probably as old as the country itself. You've heard it many times, and it goes like this: There are only two sure things in life - death and taxes.

Unless the fountain of youth is discovered or secret advances are made in human cloning, I think we still can count on passing from this earth at some point. However, the paying of taxes is not the certainty it once was. With each passing tax bill, more and more Americans no longer are paying income taxes. Thus, the question arises: Should these nontaxpayers have a say in what America does as a nation?

The proper parallel would seem to be to the disenfranchisement of residents of Washington, DC, who were expected to have too vested an interest in the operations of the Federal government. There's an obvious threat to liberty from allowing those who are dependent on government to have a say in how that government is funded and run. We'd not allow them that say. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 25, 2003 3:44 PM