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To: JOHN W K
What I’m pointing out is Wyoming citizens paid $1,574,892,667 per electoral college vote

I understand what you are pointing out, but you are quite wrong to claim that per capita taxation was the intention of apportionment. It's a wacko notion, but there are many such wacko arguments put forward on this forum, it's part of the fun of it.

To take your argument one step further, taxes paid could be converted into shares with more shares going to those who paid the most taxes and zero shares to those who pay no taxes. Each voter would then get the number of votes corresponding to his or her number of shares. It would do away with the whole notion of "one man, one vote", but what the hey!

31 posted on 09/23/2012 5:07:18 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316
See APPORTIONMENT OF A DIRECT TAX TO RAISE A TOTAL OF $ 2 MILLION TREASURY DEPARTMENT MAY 25TH 1798 the state totals are given. JWK
37 posted on 09/23/2012 7:09:54 PM PDT by JOHN W K
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