Further importance of voting wisely: elect an idiot, and he's gonna cost YOU money.
False. The people who voted against Fenty are probably the ones who pay the largest tax burden in DC.
As another example look at the coming November election and suppose that the worst case comes true and that Marxist SOS Obama is elected. It won't be because I voted for him, but his grandiose plans to rob even more from the hard working and fling the largesse around the world will be paid for by people like you and me.
Or look at Kongress and garbage like Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Kennedy (may he rot in hell soon) etc. I didn't vote against any of them because I don't live in their districts, but they can stick their hands in my pocket and withdraw as much as they want because they come from safe democrat consituencies - elected by liberals and do nothings. The ones who do the electing aren't the ones who do the paying.