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  2. <title>
  3. Mar. 05, 1990: American Notes:Washington
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. Mar. 05, 1990  Gossip                                
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. NATION, Page 21
  13. American Notes
  14. WASHINGTON
  15. No Statehood, No Taxes
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  17. <body>
  18. <p>     Like Revolutionary patriot James Otis, Walter Fauntroy, the
  19. District of Columbia's non-voting congressional delegate,
  20. insists, "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" He is
  21. urging District residents to withhold their federal taxes until
  22. the city, whose population of 617,000 is greater than that of
  23. three states, is granted statehood and full-fledged
  24. representation in the House and Senate. Fauntroy's call has
  25. triggered no rallying of the masses. Perhaps that is because
  26. the Internal Revenue Service has the same opinion of Fauntroy's
  27. idea that King George III had of Otis': with or without
  28. representation, nonpayment of taxes is a crime.
  29. </p>
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  32. </article>
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