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.
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
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.
I like this one myself
Nah, that one just explains the mechanics of how it works. The video I linked is so good because it goes into the implications of it and explains how it is a fraud perpetrated against the populace that makes everything worse for nearly everyone, including the party perpetrating it.
Here’s a link to the specific timestamp where he gets into that part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdQjqUXuDc&t=468
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.
Yeah, they should
It because D.C. is not a state, and they have no Representative in Congress.
Yes, that’s what I was referencing
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.
They used to just say “taxation without representation”.
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…
Thank you. I had to rub my eyes and make sure I wasn’t imagining things.
