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Carol Schwartz puts her tax protest on hold
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Washington Post (DC) |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
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Mike DeBonis |
It’s tax day in America, and that’s a reminder that hundreds of thousands of District residents will be paying billions of dollars worth of income taxes to a federal government in which they do not have full representation.
The irony of taxation without representation is not lost on many city politicos. A year ago, former D.C. Council member Carol Schwartz wrote in a letter to The Washington Post that she was considering not paying her federal income taxes in protest:
Next year at tax time, if I am still denied my right to vote in Congress, and no real movement is afoot, I am ready to deny the federal government my taxes. I will look at setting aside my taxes in an escrow account. I hope my fellow disenfranchised D.C. residents will join me in this effort.
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