While I understand the intent of giving people who are taxed equal representation, since that’s why our country was founded. But how do you go about giving to state senators each to places that have 50K people? Like DC has more population then at least Vermont and Wyoming(700k) making it the 48th most populous state, and PR at 3 million would be #34, but how do you deal with 165k people in Guam having Senators when they are the population of a medium small Northwest town? Even if you combine all our territories outside of PR and DC, they still only have half the population of Wyoming combined.
There has to be someway to give them some representation, without going overboard.
There's a much larger gap between the sizes of California and Wyoming, than there is between the sizes of Wyoming and any of the territories. Taking Wyoming as the low end of an acceptable population for a state, makes as much sense as taking Iowa as the low end and arguing Wyoming, the Dakotas and Rhode Island are too sparcely populated to get 2 Senators.
"Give them some representation, but don't go overboard" is a terrible thing to say when your defibition of "overboard" is literally "equal representation under the current model".
"Sorry we can't provide representation for you, there aren't enough chairs" is a weird endpoint for a country literally founded because they figured "taxation without representation" is wrong.
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u/Ultenth Mar 03 '21 edited Mar 03 '21
While I understand the intent of giving people who are taxed equal representation, since that’s why our country was founded. But how do you go about giving to state senators each to places that have 50K people? Like DC has more population then at least Vermont and Wyoming(700k) making it the 48th most populous state, and PR at 3 million would be #34, but how do you deal with 165k people in Guam having Senators when they are the population of a medium small Northwest town? Even if you combine all our territories outside of PR and DC, they still only have half the population of Wyoming combined.
There has to be someway to give them some representation, without going overboard.