“The congressman from $37,000; Why shouldn’t our political districts reflect our incomes instead of our ZIP Codes?”

Randy Cohen, who writes “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine, writes this LA Times oped. A snippet: “Because it is our 1040s not our ZIP Codes that best express our political interests, congressional districts should be re-imagined to comprise not the people who happen to live within a few miles of one another, but those who earn within a few dollars of one another.”

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