There's your problem. Liberals are illiterate.
It’s a commonwealth of the US, and as such, does not have to pay federal income taxes.
You shouldn’t be friends with someone who is too stupid to use wikipedia.
Your liberal friend must believe that Puerto Rico was the 51st of the 57 states that make up the USA.
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Definitely NOT — yet. There’s a constant Democrat campaign for PR’s adoption as a state but we have more than enough welfare payments already. We don’t need to add thousands more welfare grifters and Democrat voters.
Intellectual arrogance is one of the prime pathologies of “progressives” ... they are the last people that will ever consider that they might be wrong about something.
PR is a territory, not a state. Not yet anyway.
No.
If it was a state, there would be 51 stars on the flag.
They have shown no interest in statehood. They get the benefits without the inherent taxes that would come.
The lefties fantasize about statehood for them as a way for the left to stay in power. It is not that simple over there.
Ask him if Puerto Rico is a state, who are it’s two senators? All states are represented by two senators, but only states. That’s why Washington DC does not have senators, it’s not a state.
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Associated Free State of Puerto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands."
From ikipedia, which he loves if he's a lib.
Yer frien are a moron.
Ask him who the two senators from Puerto Rico are.
Google “Insular Cases”.
Puerto Rico is, officially, an organized, non-incorporated territory of the United States (an aberration by an activist Supreme Court since no such thing is outlined in the Constitution - see my profile page).
For practical purposes Puerto Rico is “within” the United States. This means that for most purposes Puerto Rico is “like” a state. It is within the U.S. Customs territory.
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They abide by US Federal law, and they do not have voting representatives in the US Congress. Basically, they're a legal entity like the Philippines used to be and sort of how Washington DC is now. After the Spanish-American War, we administered both the Philippines and Puerto Rico, but we let the Philippines go and kept Puerto Rico because they're inside the American hemisphere.
I will say one thing, though: You travel to San Juan and it's completely indistinguishable from Miami. Hell, they have three Bed Bath & Beyond retail locations in Puerto Rico.