For DC residents, it's taxation without representation (but you can make a difference)

Residents of the District of Columbia pay their taxes but don't have voting representation in Congress.

They have no rep in the Senate, and just one non-voting member in the House of Representatives. Non-voting!

This is what we call "taxation without representation". It's the kind of thing our Founding Fathers rebelled against.

Hopefully a change is in the works. This past week, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on the Judiciary approved the DC Voting Rights Act, which would give the District of Columbia a voting member in the House, clearing the way for a floor vote on the issue in the coming weeks. [Read more.]

You can help:

Call your Representative at 202-224-3121 and urge support for the DC Voting Rights Act (H.R. 1433)!