Tyranny for Columbians

My Congressman, Rep. Mark Pocan, favors statehood for the District of Columbia. A recent letter to the Wisconsin State Journal challenged that position, wondering how it would benefit the State of Wisconsin or the 2nd Congressional District.

The 2020 Census reported DC’s population at 689,545 (more than Wyoming or Vermont). These human beings, our fellow Americans, pay federal taxes. Yet, since DC isn’t a state, they have no voice in Congress as to what those taxes should be or how they should be spent.

The patriots who founded America started out at the Boston Tea Party and subsequently threw off the yoke of British royal rule under the rallying cry “Taxation without representation is tyranny!”.

How interesting that Mr. What’s In It For Me comes down — in public, out loud — so squarely on the side of tyranny. Could it have something to do with a majority of America's last colony being people of color?

“Democracy is the worst possible form of government — except for all the others that have ever been tried.” — Winston Churchill

Where the Asterisk Led

Not that it should ever have been necessary, but this is the explanatory footnote at the bottom of the main message:

A Story about a Little Girl and a Bicycle

Normally Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens is a barrel o'laffs with his recurring "Manitowoc Minute" videos, but here he gets serious with a message that I hope resonates with all of us, about a little girl and her first bike. (5 minutes)

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