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When, in the 1950s and ’60s, Republicans began to complain that “Taxation with representation (if the Representatives were Democrats) was, if anything, worse than what taxation without representation had been,” they stopped short of saying that “taxation with representation is tyranny.”
And now we come to the Reagan administration.
Annual deficits in the federal budget are running in the range of 200 billion dollars a year. The national debt is approximately two trillion dollars, with the likelihood that before the effects of the Reagan policies have run their course, it may be three trillion dollars. In the face of these realities, the president refuses to support any tax increases and insisted that the recently passed tax bill be revenue neutral, that is, he allowed changes in the tax laws, but only if the net effect was not to raise tax revenue. And he boasted, as did other politicians, that the new tax bill exempted six million persons from obligation to pay income taxes.
The key to the Reagan Revolution must be that if ‘Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and taxation with representation approaches tyranny, then the ideal Democratic society is one in which there is “Representation without taxation.”
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