Denying non-taxpayers the right to vote

Just read the following article on NotPC.

This is something I have wondered about myself on many occasions!

How is it that NON ratepayers and NON taxpayers get to vote on how rates and taxes are re-distributed? - Seems quite unjust to me

It 's not widely known, but the 600,000 residents of Washington, D. C. are barred from voting in Federal elections, something a new bill that has just passed through the House seeks to alter. George Reisman is opposed to the bill, and he has a strong expectation that it won 't survive in the Senate. Why is he opposed? The answer is quite simple.

The overwhelming majority of the citizens of Washington, D. C. are employees of the federal government. As such, they are not taxpayers, but rather the recipients of taxes paid by other people. Whatever taxes they nominally pay are merely a deduction from the tax proceeds they have received. All of the income they obtain and keep is from the proceeds of taxation.

Denial of the right to vote to citizens of Washington, D. C., serves in some measure to protect the taxpaying citizens of the United States from the depredations of those who live off their taxes and who would like to tax them still more.

Perhaps denying the citizens of Helengrad the 'right' to vote would perform a similar service here.