While our history textbooks tell us that the idea of "no taxation without representation" is merely an issue of the past, far too many Americans are facing it as we speak. Most notably, more than 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia have no vote in either of our nation's houses of Congress.
This lack of representation to address the many pressing issues facing all Americans, including district residents, comes despite the fact that Washington, D.C., has a population larger than that of the entire states of both Vermont and Wyoming, and that D.C. residents pay more in taxes than residents of 21 other states.