April 3, 2009
Townhall.com Comments on the District of Columbia Using Federal Taxes Paid vs. Spending Received Study
By Rich Tucker
Holder has lived in the District of Columbia for more than 20 years, and must be as tired as the rest of us are of seeing the city's idiotic "Taxation without Representation" license plates. The District is amazingly well represented—indeed, better represented than it would be if it were, in fact, a state. According to a 2006 report from the Tax Foundation, D.C. gets back $6.64 for every $1 it pays in federal taxes—an amazing rate of return.
