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Tax Day Tea Party Rallies Support for "That Other" Washington

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Monday, April 16, 2007   


It's tax day, and the League of Women Voters is holding a "Tea Party" to get Washingtonians to consider the plight of "that other" Washington. The nation's capital city gets no Congressional representation for its tax dollars. There's a bill in Congress to change that, but it would only give D.C. a House seat, not a Senate seat, and with everything else on the minds of federal lawmakers, it hasn't been a priority. Ellen Berg of the Seattle League of Women Voters says 80 percent of Americans don't even realize D.C. taxpayers are not represented in Congress.

"It isn't fair and, in fact, District of Columbia residents pay taxes at one of the highest per capita rates for federal taxes in the country. So it is really taxation without representation."

League of Women Voters' chapters across the country are handing out tea bags today, to get the word out about D.C.'s situation. Berg points out that the nation's capital has to depend on other states to carry this torch, because it doesn't have its own voice in Congress. She adds that some things haven't changed since the Boston Tea Party -- "taxation without representation" is still wrong, and everyone deserves a voice in government.

"Oh, it represents something absolutely vital and essential -- the most basic kind of democratic right, going back to the Declaration of Independence."

The Seattle League of Women Voters' "Tea Party on Tax Day" is today, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Westlake Park, downtown Seattle. The bill to provide a Congressional representative for Washington, D.C., and an additional representative for Utah, due to its population growth, is HR 328.




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