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A better question is why we have artificially capped our House of Representatives at 435 members. It has skewed the proportion of representation (and by extensi
by mburns 9y ago
A better question is why we have artificially capped our House of Representatives at 435 members. It has skewed the proportion of representation (and by extension, the electoral college) for decades.
Even the UK has 650 members in their lower house.
- davidnc 9y agoOr, give each representative voting power proportional to the number of voters in their district. That way, no need for the added salary and chaos of 200+ more representatives, and you can get perfectly proportional representation.
- curun1r 9y agoI would prefer to give representatives spending power based on their district's taxes paid. It would solve a lot of long-standing squabbles...Republicans could put none of their constituents' taxes towards Planned Parenthood, the NEA and other liberal pet agencies and the Democrats could refuse to chip in towards military boondoggles and other Republican favorites. Being able to look at a line item list of how your rep spent your Federal taxes might bring some much needed fiscal responsibility to government spending.