Taxation Without Mindless Drivel
When I lived in DC, I had to buy a bracket for my license plate to cover up the idiot “Taxation Without Representation” motto that the morons of the city government thought so clever. The first plate was given to President Bush for his limosine just after his inauguration. Now the nimnils of city government tried to inflict their intellectually vacant joke on the entire country (Washington Examiner link);
The U.S. Mint on Wednesday rejected the District of Columbia’s proposal to include the phrase “Taxation Without Representation” on its quarter, deeming the slogan too political to be put on the country’s currency.
The denial came less than a week after the District submitted three ideas for the commemorative quarter, all using the District’s protest of its lack of representation in Congress.
The U.S. Mint informed city officials that the inscription failed to comply with the law prohibiting controversial subjects on the 25-cent piece.
The city’s struggle to change how the District is represented in Congress is a political issue that the nation cannot agree on and is obviously political, U.S. Mint officials said.
“The proposed inscription is clearly controversial and, therefore, inappropriate as an element of design for United States coinage,” U.S. Mint spokesman Greg Hernandez said.
Mayor Adrian Fenty said the city was asked to submit ideas that were “emblematic of the District of Columbia.”
“I can think of nothing more unique and characteristic than our status as the only American citizens without full voting rights in Congress,” Fenty said.
Well, actually, DC residents have the opportunity to vote – with their feet. Five miles from anywhere in the city, anybody can be a resident of either Maryland or Virginia and have all of the representation they want. So DC residents CHOOSE to have no vote in Congress. The only people who really don’t have a choice are the DC politicians – and they’re the only people who should be upset they don’t have a vote. In fact they are the only people who are upset, and they’re trying to influence the rest of DC residents with the intellectually vacant motto.
When the District politicians were so certain that a Democrat Congress and a Democrat President would give them the vote back in 1992, they voted for three straw politicians awaiting the magic vote from Congress – Jesse Jackson, a Chicagoan who’d never been a resident of the District was one of those straw Senators. People that stupid shouldn’t be represented in Congress.
Since DC is mainly Democrat (the city council has two Republicans and one of them is gay and the district voted 90% for Kerry in the Presidential election of 2004), it’s just a ploy to get two Democrat Senators in Congress and one Democrat representative in the House.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure the District gets way more money from the federal government than it’s residents pay in federal taxes. The ONLY thing that would change for the District is that there’d be more jobs for the political elite.
