.@Gallup has polled #DCstatehood for the 1st time. This is valuable for two reasons: it shows #DCstatehood has become a national issue and it reinforces our view that the majority of Americans are unaware that DC residents do not have equal representationhttps://news.gallup.com/podcast/260768/del-eleanor-holmes-norton-need-statehood.aspx …
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The Founders, who went to war because they paid taxes without representation, did not intend for 700,000 taxpaying American citizens in the capital they created to be the only full taxpaying Americans left without a voice in their own national legislature.
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Taxation Without Representation was the rallying cry that founded this nation. It was unjust in 1776 and it still is in 2019.
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