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To: JOHN W K
....a vital piece of information that ties the size of each State’s number of Electoral College votes to taxation...

No, no ,no!!!!

The size of any state's Electoral College vote is not tied in any way shape or form, either Constitutionally or any other way except in your mind and your mind alone, to taxation.

52 posted on 02/16/2014 7:30:54 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: John Valentine
SEE: Article II, Section 1:

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress:

And how is each state's number of representatives determined? It is determined by the rule of apportionment which ties both representation and taxation by the same standard --- each state's population size.

What do you have against the rule requiring representation with a proportional financial obligation?

Are you really ok with 45 percent of our nation’s population who pay no taxes on incomes being allowed to vote for representatives who spend federal revenue which the remaining 55 percent of our nation’s hard working and productive population has contributed into our federal treasury via taxes on incomes when our Constitution requires “Representatives and direct taxes Shall be apportioned among the Several States”?

JWK

It’s not PORK. It’s a money laundering operation used to plunder our national treasury and fatten the fortunes of the well-connected in Washington.

57 posted on 02/16/2014 7:40:11 PM PST by JOHN W K
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