Posted on 01/14/2019 3:49:19 PM PST by SMGFan
Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico share the fundamental aspiration of statehood, although framed within different historical and constitutional contexts. Both jurisdictions are subject to the powers of Congress and have one non-voting member in the House of Representatives. There is also a broad recognition by the majority of the American citizens in each jurisdiction that the only way they can each achieve effective and politically meaningful representation in Congress is through statehood.
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Four more guaranteed Rat senators an two Rat reps.
FREE PUERTO RICO - NOW!!!
Puerto Rico is an independent country when it suits them. At the Olympics, in beauty pageants, and in the World Baseball Classic they compete as an independent country, not part of the USA They are Americans when they want a handout.
Merge new england into one state.
“Like Republicans want to give Democrats four free Senate seats and as many as five House seats.”
Put enough money in their pockets and yeah, they would welcome them with open arms.
And it is bull shit. they have gun battles on election day in Puerto Rico when statehood is on the ballot. They want to be independent like Cuba and still get all of the US money.
Demos want statehood because of the two senators from each of the regions
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Did you mean Nightmare?
When I was living and working up in the DC metropolitan area I was always amazed that they wanted to ensure that because they paid taxes they should have representation.
I always thought that if they weren’t getting representation they should have opted out of taxes altogether. I think I would have liked living there if they didn’t have taxes. No representation, no taxes.
But they wanted to pay taxes for some stupid reason that I could never figure out.
I’ll bet there are a number of RINOs who would vote for statehood for DC and PR. Romney would call those opposed to statehood “racists”. Get ready.
There is no real comparison between the two. Washington, DC, has already had some of it original territory absorbed by the State of Virginia.
It makes more sense to do the same for Maryland. Perhaps the DC boundaries could be contracted to 1 mile by 1 mile vs. 10 miles by 10 miles minus the Virginia portion.
DC is NOT a state or even state like.
Maryland is bad enough as it is. We don’t need more.
Our current permanently inhabited territories include:
American Samoa (pop 51.5k)
Guam (pop 162.7k),
the Northern Mariana Islands (pop 52.2k),
Puerto Rico (pop 3.3M), and
the U.S. Virgin Islands (pop 104.9k)
DC isn’t a territory it’s a special federal district and would need to become a territory first to comply with the Constitution....(pop ~700k). The pertinent clause is: The Congress shall have Power To… exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States… (The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17)
What’s interesting to me is the Constitutional clause for territories becoming states basically leaves it up to Congress on the requirements - usually there has been a population requirement....but there doesn’t have to be. I’d be ok with PR if say....Guam also became a state or the US VI. American Samoa has some special stuff going on if I remember right so unlikely to happen there.
Sorry, nothing personal, but if it comes to statehood versus driving Maryland a bit further backwards, then so be it.
Agree.
D.C. should remain a district only.
PR should be cut loose. The USA doesn’t need another Socialist State like CA or NY. ...btw, send all those hurricane refugees back to PR.
I do support the concept of no one actually living in the District, except the President of course.
If they did, the new city would need to be under highly competent appointed control for at least 25 years. Since there are so very few democrat leaning competent leaders, this would be an absolute impossibility.
If I’m not mistaken, they cannot vote is our national elections, but if they come here and reside, like a lot of them have sine hurricane hit island, they can.
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