Glenn Beck spent a good deal of his radio show today fear-mongering about the possibility of Puerto Rico becoming a state, warning listeners of the possibility they will “be sewing a new star on your flag: Puerto Rico.”

He also curiously claimed that if you live in Puerto Rico “you're getting all the services and you're not paying any taxes.”

Whoops, sounds like the truth slipped by him there: While most (but not all) Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income taxes, they do pay several other federal taxes, including FICA and unemployment taxes.

Also, Beck forgot to mention one little fact about Puerto Ricans: All of them (born after 1899) are U.S. citizens, even though they are not represented in the House or the Senate, or in the Electoral College.

So why is Beck -- who is constantly comparing himself to the Founding Fathers, telling people how the Founding Fathers would vote and how the Founding Fathers would secede, and invoking the Founding Fathers to attack progressives -- supporting (and misleading about) the Puerto Ricans' taxation without representation?

I, unlike Beck, don't purport to speak for the Founding Fathers, but do I believe they felt pretty strongly about that issue.