I have long thought rebuilding our drug manufacturing industry on that Island and medical equipment would be a great way to bring that back to the homeland and assure infrastructure upgrades there, more jobs for the population of it, etc.
If you grant independence to Puerto Rico, half the island will move to the mainland.
We don’t need another friggin reloading state. If the RATS want to add Puerto Rico, they need to be required to give up one of their blue crap states. The PR dump would add two more commie bastards to the Senate. We don’t need that.
Something to consider. If you add PR as a state, it means changing the flag. Now what do you think the liberals are going to do? They will suggest that if we have to redo the flag, we might as well “redesign it to better reflect who we are today.”
You’re not looking forward to Senators Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny?
Get rid of the filibuster and change the statehood rules to require a 2/3 vote in the Senate with a simple majority vote.
Yeah, cut it loose.
Make it part of another state.
NY?
Any takers at all?
We need to limit the ability of Democrats to buy votes by placing middle-class tax caps in the federal constitution.
Enter in bills for two constitutional amendments:
Levies on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished living space shall be no higher than the 2019 dollar amounts for the property, or for a newer or since resold property no higher than what it would have been levied at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished living space.
Federal taxation on personal income shall be progressively capped as follows:
below 20% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 10%,
below 50% of the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 22%,
below the median federal full-time civilian employee compensation amount, 30%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 100,000 largest recipients, 35%,
below the average federal full-time civilian employee compensation of the 10,000 largest recipients, 40%.
[Note 1: All percentages to include employee FICA and self-employment tax as they are income taxes.]
[Note 2: These are very close to the combined (1040 + employee FICA & Medicare) personal income tax rates now levied.]
[Note 3: Anything that the IRS would as of January 1, 2024 legally be able to collect income tax on if provided to any person would be considered compensation.]
Fighting in Congress to send middle-class income and property taxation cap constitutional amendments to the states would make Congress turn deep red come 2027.
They closed the bombing range so what benefit are they to conus? I’m dumb but I say cut them loose.
I thought that Puerto Rico had voted several times not to become a state. They like their citizenship, but they don’t have to pay taxes now is when I heard.
Money talks.
Every ten years they have a referendum to see what they think in PR. 90 % want to keep it the way they are. The other 10 % totals to statehood or independence.
They don’t want independence, cause will lose the welfare checks & all the other goodies for free..
Same for Statehood - they would have to pay taxes that we pay.
I say throw em off the boat
Do we NEED another welfare state?
In the November 2024 seventh non-binding status plebiscite alongside the 2024 general election.
58.6 % voted for statehood
11.8% voted for independence
29.6% voted for the status quo
Statehood is the only reasonable move forward.
5.9 million Puerto Ricans live in the continental USA
3.2 million live in Puerto Rico
There is no way to send these citizens back.
Statehood is the only way forward.