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

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

To double nitpick: She's a delegate, not a representative. There are also non-voting members from Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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.

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

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

She is still a foreigner. Just because it is relatively seamless to work in another country, it doesn't mean you are a citizen.