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amanaplanacanal | 16 days ago

Plenty of US citizens are in a similar situation: namely those who are in territories that are not US States, like Puerto Rico. Some US nationals are not even US citizens: those from American Samoa carry US passports but are not considered citizens.

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munchler|16 days ago

Citizens of Washington, DC are in the same boat. They can vote for president, but have no representation in congress.

CobrastanJorji|16 days ago

To nitpick: they have a representative, but she's not allowed to vote.

viccis|16 days ago

Not just them, but undocumented immigrants here pay close to $100 billion a year in taxes.

Immigrants as a broader category here in the US make up around 20% of our total tax revenue.

watwut|16 days ago

And also, people like blog author - foreigners with work visa. There are plenty of those, they pay taxes and they dont vote.

mhitza|16 days ago

Correction though, she's not a foreigner with a work visa, but an EU citizen living in another EU country.