I won the BSSB Fest 411 <| sep |> Well the reason you ' re getting so many down votes is because your argument makes no sense . If you actually quoted your first grade history book that you ' re trying to get people to read , you may actually have a more coherent argument . No taxation without representation was the colonists ' sloganchant that referred to the fact that the British Parliament was levying taxes on the colonies without giving them any representation in the Parliament . It does not apply to any state in the US anymore apparently except for DC and US territories because we get to vote for the president of our country vote for the Congress members of both houses for our country vote in governor and state legislature elections vote in local , mayor , etc . elections as wellExcept for the courts , I say that American citizens are well represented in their government . Source 1 st grade history book