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Then why must the president be elected into his position?

• JohnFen 1y ago
  The president is elected to enact the will of congress and to represent the US internationally. He is not elected to be the people's representative in government. That's what congress is for, and that's one of the reasons why the executive is not supposed to have the ability to impose taxes. What Trump is doing is unambiguously taxation without representation, as he is not the representative of the citizenry. For one, no single person can be the "representative of the citizenry". Or, to put it another way, "representation" means that the people have a say in what's happening. With the executive branch, that's not the case. The mechanism for that is Congress.