It means, 'We will only pay taxes that our representatives in a House or Assembly [or similar body] have approved and passed into a law.
Today it is used by residents of Washington D.C. to protest the lack of Congressional representation for the district. Washington D.C. does not have Congressional representation because it is neither a state, nor part of a state. There are initiatives in Congress to try to provide D.C. with representation.
It means a government does not have the right to tax a group of people without them being represented in the government.
No taxation without representation means that the people are being taxed by a government that did not represent them.
It means, 'We will only pay taxes that our representatives in a House or Assembly [or similar body] have approved and passed into a law.
It also means that if you pay taxes, then you are entitled to have a say in how that money will be spent (i.e., to have a vote in the elections of the representatives with the fiscal powers.
i'm pretty sure it was "No Taxation Without Representation."
"No Taxation Without Representation!" was the phrase.
They used the slogan "No taxation without representation" against the British as they had nobody to represent them in the British Parliament.
"No taxation without representation."
taxation without representation
"no taxation without representation" means that they dont want taxes without somebody to speak for them (the colonists)
Taxation without representation is wrong. Taxation is needed to pay for many government programs.
how to end taxation without representation.
The power of taxation is that every government needs it. No country can survive without the money that is brought in from taxation.
The stamp act led to the phrase no taxation without representation.
The British colonists in America before the War of Independence (no taxation without representation /in the British Parliament/).
They made a slogan "No Taxation Without Representation"