17June 2020
Leading up to the American Revolution, among the colonists'chief problems about the British Empire was that it imposed”tax without representation”– a slogan that Washington, D.C. has because adopted as its unofficial slogan. In 2000, D.C. started printing”Taxation
Without Representation “on all of the city's basic license plates, and in 2016, the city updated it to“End Taxation Without Representation.”The license plates reference the reality that D.C. residents pay federal taxes without having any voting agents in the U.S. Congress, and they're part of a long history of D.C.'s defend the very same voting rights and self-governance as the 50 states.
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