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Yes, because non-citizen residents still pay sales taxes. Many of them have jobs and pay income taxes. One of the core tenants of the US experiment in democracy
by SEJeff 7y ago
Yes, because non-citizen residents still pay sales taxes. Many of them have jobs and pay income taxes. One of the core tenants of the US experiment in democracy is no taxation without representation. This holds pretty true unless you happen to live in Washington D.C. or in Puerto Rico where they have no voting powers in congress.
- lazerpants 7y agoResidents of Puerto Rico don't pay federal income tax, hence, no representation is appropriate in that case.
- rtkwe 7y agoThey pay FICA taxes though which go to Social Security and Medicare both federal programs.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoThis taxation thing keep getting banged around a lot, but I don't think it's quite right. Many of the rights, like due process, is something fundamental we'd expect of any civilised nations. I wouldn't want to exclude tourists from that, and they probably aren't paying tax.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoThat's nonsense, no where in the bill of rights does it stipulate "if you pay taxes..."
- jessaustin 7y agoThe bill of rights doesn't mention anything about citizenship either. Lots of people at the time it was written wouldn't even have recognized that as a valid concept.
- wool_gather 7y ago> Yes, because non-citizen residents still pay sales taxes. There's no federal sales tax, and 1/10 of the states don't have state sales tax.
- dang 7y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887322 and marked it off-topic.