NO Taxation Without Representation

Last weekend this CrankyChick went home for some fun family bonding time AND to have my mom do my taxes. I know, I know, I hear you snickering. You’re just jealous because your mom isn’t as good as my mom and you have to do your taxes yourself or hire a trained professional!

This year I purchased a home – okay a 500 square foot box – in the lovely District of Columbia and I’ve resisted changing over my car tags, license and voting registration. Heck I just changed everything to MD after keeping NC tags, license, etc. for four years after I moved to the area! Anyway, I’m continuing to act out in the same manner by not moving everything over to DC. I did this for one simple reason, okay two reasons. One, I am lazy. Two, I refuse to pay taxes and be forced to vote in a place where your vote does not matter and going over my FEDERAL TAX RETURN this weekend fired me up!

How do people who have lived a lifetime in the District deal with this? Hell I’m nuts and it’s only been four months! (I’m also nuts for other reasons, but that’s for another post.) How does Eleanor Holmes Norton keep herself from walking into the U.S. House of Representatives and scream, yell, and rage at all the idiots who refuse to give DC residents a VOTING member of Congress every single day. WE (citizens of DC) don’t want just some pansy who has to get someone else to sponsor her bills (sorry Eleanor) but a REAL member of Congress. AND, I don’t want to have to give Utah another seat either. I don’t care about Utah – I care about us!

This isn’t about getting another Republican to balance out the Democrats – this is about what’s fair. I pay taxes, I want a voting member of Congress. It’s that damn simple – OR I’m taking back all of my money, take that George! I think I’m going to have to devote some serious CrankyTime to figuring out how I can claim a number of dependents so high that the “Man” gets no more of my money until the law is changed… or until I’m thrown in the clink for not paying my taxes.