[fightinJAG]

Our biggest issue with taxation is representation.

At the time of the American Revolution the problem for the country was taxation without representation.

Today the problem for the country is representation without taxation.

[mylife]

Huh?

[JOHN W K]

Exactly. And if we enforced the rule of apportionment for any general tax among the states and the people of each state were required to pay their apportioned share of the tax proportionately equal to their representation, we would once again have representation with proportional obligation! The formulas being:

FAIR SHARE OF ANY GENRAL TAX AMONG THE STATES

State`s Pop.
_________ X SUM NEEDED = STATE`S SHARE OF TAX
U.S. pop.

FAIR SHARE OF EACH STATE’S REPRESENTATIVES

State`s Pop.
___________ X House size (435) = State`s No.of Reps.
U.S. pop.

JWK

“The apportionment of representation and taxation by the same scale is just; it removes the objection, that, while Virginia paid one sixth part of the expenses of the Union [under the Articles of Confederation], she had no more weight in public counsels than Delaware, which paid but a very small portion” 3 Elliot‘s 41