D.C. poised to change license plate slogan in push to become 51st state

The Washington Post: Stamping “Taxation Without Representation” onto D.C. license plates was supposed to be an in-your-face protest of District residents’ lack of voting rights.

The sight of it was supposed to embarrass members of Congress, who spend billions in city residents’ tax dollars each year without their say. And it was supposed to increase awareness of District residents’ plight with visitors as being a message at odds with their own proud state slogans, like Connecticut’s “The Constitution State,” or Delaware’s “The First State.”

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