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No Quarter
Feb 28, 2008 | 6:26 AM
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So the Mint is vetoing DC's selected quarter design because it doesn't cotton to the "Taxation Without Representation" inscription?

Stiff 'em, then.  Show 'em no quarter.

This is just another slap in the face for DC, another show of blatant disrespect, another demeaning display of paternalism.  It's time to Just Say No.

NO, we won't revise the design.  NO, we won't submit an alternative one.  NO, we don't want "our own" quarter if the one that best describes DC's political plight happens to give Big Daddy a big red rash.

At this point, the only other appropriate design would be the one bearing a picture of the Washington Monument and an inscription that reads "DC Gets The Shaft".

You weren't even gonna give us a quarter, until we complained.  So here you go!  Take back the lousy two-bits you tossed in our direction to shut us up.  Take it and shove it in your sphinctered slot where it belongs.

We don't need no stinkin' quarter.  We need our God-given political rights.  It's time to make a nationwide statement by rejecting any ersatz, hand-me-down, politically correct design.  We'd rather be unrepresented than misrepresented.

Just my two cents.

 

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RED-DOG1 read my blog view my photos
Feb 28, 2008 | 12:25 PM

All of the quarters that represented the 50 states were all slogan's and designs that showed how proud or certain achievements pertaining to that state.
You sound like your proud of DC, I take it you live there. You really want people all over to look at a coin and laugh at DC?
There is nothing else in DC's history that warrants something DC residents can be proud of? It has to be a protest? A joke? A slap in the face of the entire idea behind the quarters?
Like I said in a previous post. Maybe they should just post the murder rate on the coin. That or the crack dealers handing drugs to kids. Or broken down schools.
If all residents of DC think like you, I say no coin for you too. You fail to realize the whole idea behind the project.
The "fight" to get the coin was an amendment to the original plan and included all territories.
loco_moco read my blog
Feb 28, 2008 | 5:36 PM

Of course DC has plenty to be proud of. It's Congress that should be ashamed. Ashamed of not granting DC residents the same right to representation that every other US citizen enjoys.

I certainly understand the concept behind the quarters. And you guessed right about this being a protest. That's the whole point. Use this highly public and symbolic method to shame Congress into doing what's right.

Given all your trash talk about the downsides of DC, clearly you are the one that has no respect and yet you presume to lecture me?

One more thing, compare our "Taxation Without Representation" quarter with any and all of the other commemorative quarters. That's the one, far beyond any of the others, that would become an instant and long-term collector's item!
RED-DOG1 read my blog view my photos
Feb 28, 2008 | 6:37 PM

You say I have no respect because I mentioned things that are wrong with DC. Apples and oranges pal. Your knocking the Government I'm knocking the residents. Whats the difference in regards to respect? The end game of something negative on the quarter would be the same. People would see DC as a joke.
Thats my point.
Put your protest aside for a minute and be glad you have the choice to be on a coin. Pick something to be proud of and fight the fight another day.

But I hope you do you realize that the "Taxes" paid by DC residents aren't even HALF the amount the federal government spends on the city every year?
What is your Mayor doing with all those Federal bucks?
grandillusion read my blog
Feb 28, 2008 | 6:38 PM

Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico has limited representation in the U.S. Congress in the form of a Resident Commissioner, currently Luis Fortuño, a nonvoting delegate. Puerto Rican’s also pay U.S. Federal Taxes.

U.S. Virgin Islands - The U.S. Virgin Islands elected delegate, while able to vote in committee, cannot participate in floor votes. The current House of Representatives delegate is Donna Christensen (D). The U.S. Virgin Islands also pays U.S. Federal Taxes.

American Samoa - Samoans are entitled to elect one non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Their delegate since 1989 has been Democrat Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. They also receive delegates to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Although America Somoa is governed by the U.S. IRS, it appears that the citizens are exempt from Federal Tax, but they still fall under the U.S. Tax Code.

Guam - Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Delegate, U.S. Congress, U.S. treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by local taxpayers to include military and civilian federal employees assigned to Guam

“No taxation without representation”

Either they should not be taxed... or they should have a vote.... dammit, we went to war over this... and I bet our own IRS is a heck of a lot more tyrannical than King George ever was.

Whether a state, a territory, a country, a locality or an individual... I Say Again...

“No Taxation Without Representation”!!!
jadeddude read my blog
Feb 28, 2008 | 7:02 PM

Don't waste your time Grand or Dog this is a wasted subject.D.C. never gets representation ever period.The land was taken by the federal gov't from Va. or Md. to make the nations capital.It's a federal city period,they get know representation in congress ever! They are an embarrassment to the rest of the nation and have been for decades! Oh yeah Get rid of Elenore Holmes Norton too What a Rube!
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