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As a US citizen living abroad, I have no representatives. This, as I am getting ready to file my US income taxes for which I receive no benefits or representation.
The taxes you owe take this into account, don't they? You have benefits of being a US citizen regardless of where you live. Some may value this more than others. Weighing your options, you may want to consider changing your citizenship.
I'm guessing the title was intended to have s/and out/and find out/ ?
I was kind of enjoying 'out' as the verb, but you're probably right. (Submitted title was 'Enter your address and out everyone who represents you in government'.)
As a US citizen living abroad, I have no representatives. This, as I am getting ready to file my US income taxes for which I receive no benefits or representation.
Is the point so that I can tweet or mail letters to my elected officials?
Is tweeting at officials supposed to help my station in life? Just seems ridiculous to me that tweeting would be taken seriously. I suppose it could be taken seriously but that would actually scare me more.
I always believed that if you want to make a difference than vote with your wallet and I don't mean to donate money to politicians. I mean to make purchases from companies you respect.
I'd like to see this expanded to show the full text, the representative's summary, and constituent comments for the bills, codes, policies, docket, whatever they are actually going to be voting on. Then, show how they voted.
I really don't understand this. Is the point so that I can tweet or mail letters to my elected officials? Is tweeting at officials supposed to help my station in life? Just seems ridiculous to me that tweeting would be taken seriously. I suppose it could be taken seriously but that would actually scare me more. I always believed that if you want to make a difference than vote with your wallet and I don't mean to dona…
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> If you're still feeling paranoid (and rightly so), enter your neighbor's address. Thanks for that idea. A simple yet effective solution that I hadn't thought of before.
Keep in mind you may be on the border of a district. Your neighbor and you may not be in the same district. Likely won't make a difference, but it may. Maybe check multiple neighbors.
It's important to note that this is US only.
It's funny how it's always American who "forget" to mention that something is scoped to their country. I kind of always felt that given that their country is so vast, they must feel like there is nothing more out there, or at least it's not worth mentioning. I've found many, many American businesses trying to sell their product via ads or other kind of marketing, but "forgetting" to mention that they are US-only. I'm…
I really don't understand this. Is the point so that I can tweet or mail letters to my elected officials? Is tweeting at officials supposed to help my station in life? Just seems ridiculous to me that tweeting would be taken seriously. I suppose it could be taken seriously but that would actually scare me more. I always believed that if you want to make a difference than vote with your wallet and I don't mean to dona…
Why is it ridiculous that tweeting would be taken seriously?Why would the form of communication matter? Elected representative "should" listen to their constituents by most definitions, and a tweet is just as valid a form of communication as any otherb- and hard to ignore because it is public.
How would they know a yell or a letter came from a constituent?