If you’ve been to Washington D.C. in the past few years, you may have noticed that their license plates invoke the centuries-old issue of “taxation without representation.” But these plates aren’t meant to celebrate the historic Revolution as much as they are protesting the problem that exists today. What’s that? You thought this debate was over and done-with in America ever since the colonies won independence from the British crown? If so, you were wrong.

According to the organization DCVote.org, it’s unfair that District of Columbia residents bear the same burden of taxes as everyone else, but do not have a voting representative in the U.S. Congress. They make an interesting point, and their cause has recently won some momentum in Congress, according to a recent New York Times story. But, why did the Founding Fathers, who risked their lives to rid us of such tyranny, put D.C. in this situation in the first place?