Any Puerto Rican that votes in favor of anything that has any chance whatsoever to lead to statehood, should have their head examined.
Surely from the island, they must see what we are enduring on the mainland: Obama and his minions micromanaging every element of everyone’s life, the spending (which they will be on the hook for), the taxes (which are going UP), the loss of state soverignty. If they vote “yes” thinking they will get “benefits”...bad news. The cupboard is bare and the economic trainwreck known as Obama is going to be stopped via the scarce tax receipts and climbing debt. There is no more income to redistribute.
Worse part is, if they become a state, they’ll be as stuck as those of us in red states: there is no way out. Seceding is a great idea...but do you think a guy that takes away our choice of health care is going to allow anyone to secede without a big ass fight?
That’s why they’ve got Sovereignty association crap in there. All the benefits of statehood, none of the responsibilities. They’d vote in the election, but they wouldn’t pay taxes.