A James B. Stewart column in Saturday's New York Times proposes to increase taxes on what Mr. Stewart describes as "Ultrawealthy nonresidents who own property in New York City."
Mr. Stewart tries to portray people in this category as undertaxed, but he conveniently neglects to mention the real estate transfer tax, which is paid by the people he is writing about. He also neglects to mention that America was founded on a revolution against taxation without representation. That's relevant here, because what Mr. Stewart proposes — jacking up tax rates on people who don't live in New York City and thus don't have a vote on those taxes — amounts precisely to taxation without representation.