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re: Puerto Rico votes for statehood
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:03 pm to Rocco Lampone
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:03 pm to Rocco Lampone
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Puerto Rico votes for statehood
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Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:09 pm to SCLibertarian
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. I am shocked the independence vote is as low as it is.
The Independence Party and supporters were told to boycott the election.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:13 pm to Rocco Lampone
If we agree to take Puerto Rico can we give up Florida? Seems like a push to me.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:14 pm to Rocco Lampone
Live shot from the WH:
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 7:54 am
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:14 pm to occams razor
They got some Puerto Rican girls that are dying to meet you....
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:14 pm to MMauler
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.
Unless they are brown or poor.
Unless they are brown or poor.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:29 pm to Rocco Lampone
quote:
Puerto Rico votes for statehood
The answer is: NO
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:30 pm to Macbeth
Please Congress do not let them in. It is a welfare state with too much debt. Would be a blue state. Pass
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:32 pm to Dale51
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Parasites looking for a new host.
You mean like the politicians, bankers, hedgefund investors, and corporateers that use it as a tax shelter?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:33 pm to occams razor
Why is that a push? Florida's economy is a frick ton better than the Gulf states.
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:34 pm to Ebbandflow
Since when is Puerto Rico a tax shelter?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:36 pm to Rocco Lampone
Don't need another Takertopia
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:37 pm to Macbeth
quote:
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Unless they are brown or poor.
Never US policy.
Was from a poem written by a socialist and Zionist.
The plaque should read send me cheap labor and I don't give a shite about there color as long as I can make money on there labor.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:41 pm to Jorts R Us
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:43 pm to OTIS2
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Nope. Don't need another bunch of broke arse welfare leaches latching on to us.
They already receive govt assistance. They also get massive breaks on taxes. It would actually be cheaper to have them as a state.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:44 pm to Rocco Lampone
Won't happen under a Republican congress.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:50 pm to Rocco Lampone
of course they did. No. Sorry,guys...we're full. Maybe see if Haiti wants to play with y'all.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:51 pm to Jorts R Us
Since a very very long time.
PR, in light of their territorial restrictions, was granted special tax provisions. One was aforementioned tax shelter. Another was treating PR issued bonds preferentially, making it very cheap for them to go into debt.
Instead of using that money to build infrastructure and expand industry, the father of the current face of the pro-state movement, who held the governor position his son currently holds, made a series of very stupid moves among them was to deliberately push industry and shipping out and focusing on tourism alone.
Every step of the way, poor decisions and inefficiencies were recognized, but it wasn't deemed politically expedient to fix them when it was just so damned easy and cheap to issue bonds.
And here we are now, a situation where the educated workforce is using their US citizenship to vacate the island en masse. To the order of 10% of their population, with no real prospect of improving. Not even attempting to improve, because who cares?
You know shite is getting fricking bad if Obama had to strip the island of all fiscal authority, delegating it to a Congressional panel.
And the current leader? Who himself and his family have the strongest connection to the woes? Well he publically insinuates America is to blame for his problems, and advocates statehood as a means to repair the damage imperialism has done. Make no mistake, he only wants statehood for more access to money and regained freedom to use it. I've seen no overtures to join the American community or culture. It's just "GIMMIE."
PR, in light of their territorial restrictions, was granted special tax provisions. One was aforementioned tax shelter. Another was treating PR issued bonds preferentially, making it very cheap for them to go into debt.
Instead of using that money to build infrastructure and expand industry, the father of the current face of the pro-state movement, who held the governor position his son currently holds, made a series of very stupid moves among them was to deliberately push industry and shipping out and focusing on tourism alone.
Every step of the way, poor decisions and inefficiencies were recognized, but it wasn't deemed politically expedient to fix them when it was just so damned easy and cheap to issue bonds.
And here we are now, a situation where the educated workforce is using their US citizenship to vacate the island en masse. To the order of 10% of their population, with no real prospect of improving. Not even attempting to improve, because who cares?
You know shite is getting fricking bad if Obama had to strip the island of all fiscal authority, delegating it to a Congressional panel.
And the current leader? Who himself and his family have the strongest connection to the woes? Well he publically insinuates America is to blame for his problems, and advocates statehood as a means to repair the damage imperialism has done. Make no mistake, he only wants statehood for more access to money and regained freedom to use it. I've seen no overtures to join the American community or culture. It's just "GIMMIE."
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:53 pm to Ebbandflow
Creating tax incentives is not the same as being known as a tax shelter. For a more in depth analysis, lookie here: It ain't like cayman or the bvi, baw
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:55 pm to Rocco Lampone
Don't want ya....
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