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To: Fee
once PR is a state taxes will skyrocket.

Half of households in America pay no federal taxes. Puerto Rico has 1/3rd the income per capita and will pay next to nothing. What may throw their vote: the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is a lump sum $5,657 welfare check every year not currently available to Puerto Ricans.

36 posted on 04/29/2010 8:50:58 AM PDT by Reeses (All is vanity)
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This would fundamentally change our country. SEIU is big in PR. Many do not speak English.


41 posted on 04/29/2010 9:41:10 AM PDT by opentalk
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