Mitch McConnell Calls the Founding Fathers ‘Socialists’

This looks like a socialist cabal to Senator McConnell.

On Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Laura Ingraham that a House propsal to grant statehood to the District of Columbia is “full-bore socialism.” If you haven’t been keeping score at home, residents of DC pay Federal Income Taxes but don’t have voting representation in Congress. The signers of the Declaration of Independence weren’t as comfortable with Taxation Without Representation as Mitch is. Neither are Washingtonians.

Hey Mitch-those of us in DC who pay our taxes, send our children to the military to defend our nation, obey the law, want representation in Congress like all other American citizens.That’s not socialism.That’s called equal representation-America was born in fight for this concept https://t.co/yfnjwFf8Wc

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) June 17, 2019

More:

“McConnell seems to call the prospect of D.C. statehood ‘full-bore socialism,’” Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post

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Image (“Declaration of Independence Drafting Committee, after Jean Leon Gerome Ferris”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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