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- NATION, Page 21American NotesWASHINGTONNo Statehood, No Taxes
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- Like Revolutionary patriot James Otis, Walter Fauntroy, the
- District of Columbia's non-voting congressional delegate,
- insists, "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" He is
- urging District residents to withhold their federal taxes until
- the city, whose population of 617,000 is greater than that of
- three states, is granted statehood and full-fledged
- representation in the House and Senate. Fauntroy's call has
- triggered no rallying of the masses. Perhaps that is because
- the Internal Revenue Service has the same opinion of Fauntroy's
- idea that King George III had of Otis': with or without
- representation, nonpayment of taxes is a crime.
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