Horn
22nd January 2013, 12:34 AM
It’s poised to be a colossal event: over 100 parade horses, miles of electric cable, at least 50,000 volunteers, hundreds of thousands of free tickets — and at least one limo bearing the slogan “taxation without representation.” That limo will carry President Barack Obama from the Capitol along a 1.5-mile route on Pennsylvania Avenue as part of inauguration ceremonies next Monday, Jan. 21. On its license plates: the phrase used by frustrated colonists in the years leading up to the American Revolution.
No, it’s not some seditious prank planned by Obama’s political foes, it’s actually a symbolic decision endorsed by the President himself. In fact the phrase will soon appear on all of the presidential vehicles for the remainder of Obama’s four-year term, says the White House...
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No, it’s not some seditious prank planned by Obama’s political foes, it’s actually a symbolic decision endorsed by the President himself. In fact the phrase will soon appear on all of the presidential vehicles for the remainder of Obama’s four-year term, says the White House...
.http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/taxation-without-representation.jpg?w=260
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/18/obama-inauguration-limo-to-carry-taxation-without-representation-license-plate/#ixzz2IggjaZrt