I’ll point the obvious out....if you are a former felon and did your time in prison, but now....cannot vote in an election...you are required to pay taxes without representation. This violates one of those silly Constitutional things that we often forget about. I would think that a felon required to buy health insurance now...would stand up and note that he can’t be required to buy into the health insurance...unless the state changes it’s election laws, or this is deemed not-a-tax. I can see Justice Roberts standing there....mostly grinning...as he goes 180-degrees....and says well now....this can’t be a tax. At that point, he’d have to be fired and sent off to retirement.
There is no "right to vote" in the US Constitution, and I submit that universal suffrage is a, if not THE primary cause of the political condition the USA is in. The so-called low information voter, or leech (be they welfare leech or corporate rent-seeker) are a majority of voters. Once the majority figure it can vote money for itself out of the public treasury, the gig is up.
At least some of the founders were wary of universal suffrage, having studied history and being a bit more thoughtful than the average person.
“...a former felon (is) required to pay taxes without representation.
This violates one of those silly Constitutional things...”
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Though “taxation without representation” is indeed itemized
as one of the “long train of abuses” in the Declaration of Independence,
“taxation without representation” is nowhere prohibited by
nor even mentioned in the body of the Constitution.
There are several examples of “taxation without representation”
that occur all around us all the time.