Washington D.C. License Plates

[Dissipate]

So as I was driving around I noticed someone with a Washington D.C. plate that said: TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION. At first I thought that they had put that on there themselves, but then I saw a couple others. I looked it up and sure enough, the DMV had issued these plates. Text


So essentially the DMV (a local bureaucracy) is using it's power to issue license plates to lobby the federal government? Hmmm, I wonder what's next?

 

[Mursilis]

Those plates have been out for a while, and they have a point - it's an absurdity that DC residents don't have a voting member of Congress. Of course, some Democrats' solution to the problem - make DC a state - is also an absurdity, and I don't think that's the proper solution. Rather, DC as a political entity should be rolled into Maryland, thus giving all DC residents a vote in both House and Senate elections.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
So as I was driving around I noticed someone with a Washington D.C. plate that said: TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION. At first I thought that they had put that on there themselves, but then I saw a couple others. I looked it up and sure enough, the DMV had issued these plates. Text


So essentially the DMV (a local bureaucracy) is using it's power to issue license plates to lobby the federal government? Hmmm, I wonder what's next?

couldn't the whole country use these plates? 😀

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: Shivetya

Originally posted by: Dissipate
So as I was driving around I noticed someone with a Washington D.C. plate that said: TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION. At first I thought that they had put that on there themselves, but then I saw a couple others. I looked it up and sure enough, the DMV had issued these plates. Text


So essentially the DMV (a local bureaucracy) is using it's power to issue license plates to lobby the federal government? Hmmm, I wonder what's next?

couldn't the whole country use these plates? 😀

Sure, but why? You may not like your representatives, but at least you have some form of it.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Shivetya

Originally posted by: Dissipate
So as I was driving around I noticed someone with a Washington D.C. plate that said: TAXATION WITH NO REPRESENTATION. At first I thought that they had put that on there themselves, but then I saw a couple others. I looked it up and sure enough, the DMV had issued these plates. Text


So essentially the DMV (a local bureaucracy) is using it's power to issue license plates to lobby the federal government? Hmmm, I wonder what's next?

couldn't the whole country use these plates? 😀

I know I could. As a single renter making about 60K a year as a software engineer, I'm going to get raped on taxes. Hell, I might as well make 30K a year and pay almost no taxes, it would almost be the same.

I am actually considering going expatriate to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (a first world city that has no income tax). I talked to a woman there over video Internet chat who is an expat from the Phillipines there. They have software engineering jobs.

 

[Triumph]

I for one love those DC plates. I think it's great that one government entity is taking a potshot at another and getting away with it. Good for them!

 

[Gneisenau]

Originally posted by: Mursilis
Those plates have been out for a while, and they have a point - it's an absurdity that DC residents don't have a voting member of Congress. Of course, some Democrats' solution to the problem - make DC a state - is also an absurdity, and I don't think that's the proper solution. Rather, DC as a political entity should be rolled into Maryland, thus giving all DC residents a vote in both House and Senate elections.

The origional idea was to keep them seperate so they were not beholden to any state. Whether or not that idea still makes sense is debateable. Personally, I think it still does. The problem is the fact that DC was supposed to be the temporary home of politicians, their support staff, and the infastructure support. Now it's no different than any other town with respect to who lives there. All the politicians live elsewhere, Their staff may or may not live there, but the residents are no different than any town in the country. What would be most benificial, but impossible, is to remove all residences from DC and turn it strictly into a government town. Hell, with the speed the government is growing, they're going to need the space soon anyway.

 

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: Gneisenau

Originally posted by: Mursilis
Those plates have been out for a while, and they have a point - it's an absurdity that DC residents don't have a voting member of Congress. Of course, some Democrats' solution to the problem - make DC a state - is also an absurdity, and I don't think that's the proper solution. Rather, DC as a political entity should be rolled into Maryland, thus giving all DC residents a vote in both House and Senate elections.

The origional idea was to keep them seperate so they were not beholden to any state. Whether or not that idea still makes sense is debateable. Personally, I think it still does. The problem is the fact that DC was supposed to be the temporary home of politicians, their support staff, and the infastructure support. Now it's no different than any other town with respect to who lives there. All the politicians live elsewhere, Their staff may or may not live there, but the residents are no different than any town in the country. What would be most benificial, but impossible, is to remove all residences from DC and turn it strictly into a government town. Hell, with the speed the government is growing, they're going to need the space soon anyway.

You make a good point, so why not roll back the city's boundaries (which has been done before - the 'old' DC used to include land across the Potomac River in what is now Alexandria and Arlington) to what is essentially the federal district, and give the chiefly residential sections back to Maryland? It just seems a basic injustice that hundreds of thousands of DC residents don't have a voting voice in Congress.

 

[Gneisenau]

That works for me.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
I am actually considering going expatriate to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (a first world city that has no income tax).

I talked to a woman there over video Internet chat who is an expat from the Phillipines there.

They have software engineering jobs.

We need enough people to expatriate to make a difference but there is a lot more talk and more and more people doing it everyday so it's a start.

 

[palehorse]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Dissipate
I am actually considering going expatriate to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (a first world city that has no income tax).

I talked to a woman there over video Internet chat who is an expat from the Phillipines there.

They have software engineering jobs.

We need enough people to expatriate to make a difference but there is a lot more talk and more and more people doing it everyday so it's a start.

So when are you leaving? and who are you referring to as "we"? just curious...

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Mursilis

Originally posted by: Gneisenau

Originally posted by: Mursilis
Those plates have been out for a while, and they have a point - it's an absurdity that DC residents don't have a voting member of Congress. Of course, some Democrats' solution to the problem - make DC a state - is also an absurdity, and I don't think that's the proper solution. Rather, DC as a political entity should be rolled into Maryland, thus giving all DC residents a vote in both House and Senate elections.

The origional idea was to keep them seperate so they were not beholden to any state. Whether or not that idea still makes sense is debateable. Personally, I think it still does. The problem is the fact that DC was supposed to be the temporary home of politicians, their support staff, and the infastructure support. Now it's no different than any other town with respect to who lives there. All the politicians live elsewhere, Their staff may or may not live there, but the residents are no different than any town in the country. What would be most benificial, but impossible, is to remove all residences from DC and turn it strictly into a government town. Hell, with the speed the government is growing, they're going to need the space soon anyway.

You make a good point, so why not roll back the city's boundaries (which has been done before - the 'old' DC used to include land across the Potomac River in what is now Alexandria and Arlington) to what is essentially the federal district, and give the chiefly residential sections back to Maryland? It just seems a basic injustice that hundreds of thousands of DC residents don't have a voting voice in Congress.

Why not do that? Because nobody wants DC. Would raise both Maryland's and Virginia's crime rate by 3 fold, instantly. :laugh:

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: palehorse74

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Dissipate
I am actually considering going expatriate to Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (a first world city that has no income tax).

I talked to a woman there over video Internet chat who is an expat from the Phillipines there.

They have software engineering jobs.

We need enough people to expatriate to make a difference but there is a lot more talk and more and more people doing it everyday so it's a start.

So when are you leaving? and who are you referring to as "we"? just curious...

I don't know what Dave means by 'we,' but to me 'we' means the productive unmarried people in this country who get assraped on taxes and are forced to pay into a system that is doomed to collapse by the year 2030 or even sooner.

 

[ayabe]

Personally, I prefer this Oklahoma Plate, it looks great framed between my camo Support the Troops bumper stickers.