60 percent of PR oppose statehood. They are subdivided into 15 pro independence and 45 pro commonwealth. They are not stupid. The pro independence faction knows that once PR becomes a US state it would not be easy to break away, and the pro commonwealth people know that once PR is a state taxes will skyrocket. Those two groups may get together and chose commonwealth.
This is likely, but the bill should be killed in Congress. The bill offers four options:
Status quo
Independence
Statehood
or “Sovereignty association” which is the same garbage we have here in Quebec.
Plus, if they vote status quo, they have another vote in 8 years. This bill reminds me of all the Quebec referendum votes up here.
Yes, but now they’d get universal healthcare!
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.
They aren’t stupid but they are being tricked. This is just another way to add another 4 million democratic votes, more senators and house members, then to that add 4 million felons now allowed to vote, 12 million illegals. November elections cannot be counted on for Republicans. They are making sure of that now. CO
So are Kentucky, Virginia, and Massachusetts really states??