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fine limit the issue to tax matters
Nearly all government actions involve revenues or spending to some degree. Do they get to vote on issues or tariffs, or how about spending, perhaps they vote to use all government revenues ( ie your tax dollars) on Pamela Anderson blow up dolls for all adult males. I dont think the fact they were able to vote on how the government spent your money would make you feel satisified. Or perhaps they voted to eliminate the FBI and the standing US military and use the money saved to build pyramids. I am sure you would be upset that the untaxed were determining how your tax money was being spent, despite those people not being able to vote on increasing your taxes
secondly the above would also mean the US was a direct democracy, rather then a representational one (republic it may be)
How would the various congressmen be allowed to vote. Would congressional districts have to be rated on the amount of tax each pays, preventing those that recieve a net amount of money from the federal government from voting on taxation issues, while only those districts that pay more in taxation then what they receive being able to vote on taxation issues. What about those individuals that live in one district who should have his/her vote count or not count but because of the district they are in it doesnt
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