Puerto Rico- Our 51st State?
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Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
Why does this matter for this issue?
Anyway, only sporadically ... some monks and traders swamped by Indians. Those guys are not the ancestors of the Hispanic people we're talking about fyi.
Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
My point was the one I made, that's why I made it.
Responding to a comment, like one does in these places.
Not sure otherwise that I follow the meaning of your question.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Pangur Bán;11346385 said:
What Hispanic people are we talking about? I thought we were talking about a language.
Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
as far as i know we are, though feel free to correct me. there's no coherent non-linguistic definion of the term.
No. Until each and every citizen and corporation of the USA pays his fair share towards his country, there shall be no discussion of adding millions more people who don't pay their fair share.
All efforts should be employed towards correcting this - targetting the complex corporate loopholes and the ~200 million citizens who don't pay anywhere near their fair share.
All efforts should be employed towards correcting this - targetting the complex corporate loopholes and the ~200 million citizens who don't pay anywhere near their fair share.
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Jewel Runner
Puerto Rican statehood would increase the American taxpayer base quite significantly.
There's only a couple of million people at the top who don't pay their fair share. Most most Americans pay more than their fair share.
Elta
我不会把这种
He is implying that the earned income tax credit is some sort of sneaky theft I'll bet 
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
200 million? So over half of all Americans?
Is the number of people actually paying taxes that low in the US?
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Jewel Runner
Maybe not "quite significantly," but we'd still have more than we would otherwise. I really don't know what he's going for there.
Save_Ferris
Admiring Myself
We should sell it to China. They'd want a military base in the Caribbean, close to us.
As US citizens who pay for social security and medicare, just like anyone else they have access to it. As far as the US government is concerned there is no Puerto Rican citizens, any resident (be it Puerton Rican, any other American, or non-US citizen) of Puerto Rico doesn't pay income tax on income earned in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico collects taxes (including sales tax and income tax) to pay for the services it provides, though there are significant subsidies from the federal government.
Fun fact: about 140 to 150 million people filed taxes last year. All those damned imaginary free-loading quasi-taxpayers are really dragging our economy down!
Basically this. Every Puerto Rican was granted full US citizenship during the WW1 years. So they are indistinguishable from the inhabitants of any other US state, it's just the local government that is different.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Ah yes. The dangerous legislation that led to the Great Puerto Rican Crisis of 1918. Upon recieving citizenship, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans boarded boats and headed straight for the mainland where upon they used their newly acquired 2nd Amendment rights to arm themselves and went house to house forcing Americans speak Spanish. Unfortunately the bulk of America's armed forces were still in France and unable to intervene. If only they had been taught English first.
I can only imagine such a tragedy would repeat itself if we allow PR to enter the Union without such basic linguistic precautions.
