@maxboot this is why the house exists

@maxboot But representation in Congress was not built around how much taxpayers pay, right? 🤔

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You could also contrast the Senate underrepresentation of Texas & Florida vs. Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and other low-population blue states, but the fundamental point is that the archaic 2-senators-per-state rule is in conflict with the one-person-one-vote principle.

@maxboot
Remember the senate was never about democracy, quite the opposite. When founded, the oldest “democracy” in the world only gave the vote to white males who owned property.
The distribution of taxes is a reminder of how Americans bite the hands that feed them

@maxboot Yeah... It's called "every state gets 2 senators, no more, no less". If you want to look at *representation*, look at how many *representatives* belong to those groups.

@maxboot FWIW, the two-chamber parliamentary system was designed to represent a) the people, in the House of Representatives, and b) the States (of the United *States* of America). So, it's by design. But when they came up with it, you didn't have this disparity in the number of inhabitants per state. And that indeed results in an imbalance in power now.

@maxboot Now do Puerto Rico. :)