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Revision as of 20:15, 18 June 2022
"No taxation without representation" is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution which expressed one of the primary grievances of American colonists against the British Crown.[1]
In modern times, the phrase has become useful again due to the fact that the government of the United States is controlled by capitalist plutocrats; the American working class are heavily taxed, but according to Princeton University, there is no representation for the commoners.[2] This is a predictable phenomenon of so-called "liberal (capitalist) democracies" which are actually bourgeois dictatorships.