In the city I presently live in, Oshkosh, WI, we have a system of city government in which we have no real representation whatsoever. The city council is elected at large -- meaning we have no ward alderman, and, in fact, most of the time all the council members are from the newer burbs where the more affluent live. The city council then elects the mayor. This is a city of just over 50K. This is supposed to be "progressive". I can't wait until the states and the fed go this route. Seems to me to be totally unconstitutional -- taxation w/o representation to the core -- but what do I know. Jim Burnes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
No surprise to most members of this list that this government trend toward withholding money it has taken in other ways is a serious threat to freedom.
I believe the original rallying cry was:
"No Taxation Without Representation"
Conditional representation (of which taxation is clearly but a part) should be provably unconstitutional.
Wait, I forgot. I thought we were still in a republic.
Never mind.
jim
-- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural