While giving DC’s House member a vote is a good thing, even if it means awarding an undeserved seat to Utah, taxation with partial representation is not really a legitimate compromise. Is there any reason the 580,000 residents of Washington are less deserving of representation in the Senate than the 515,000 residents of Wyoming, or the 620,000 of Vermont?

For that matter, wouldn’t it be nicely absurd if the 420,000 residents of Dane County also got to send two senators to Washington? Surely our collective opinions should carry as much weight as 33,800,000 Californians.

Posted by Ben Brothers at 9:25 am, 2 July 2007 and filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.