Posted on 10/06/2020 4:42:11 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
That’s what I was wondering. RATs want to give statehood to PR. Maybe they’re re-thinking that now.
Many assume that the majority of the citizens of PR want statehood. If that were to happen; Puerto Rican citizens would then become responsible for paying US federal taxes, from which they are currently exempt.
When you tack that on to the high tax rate they already pay in PR, statehood doesn't look like a very attractive proposition for most in PR.
They would also lose many of the US businesses (mostly in finance) that relocated there over the past few years due to the US federal tax exemption.
All Puerto Rican’s living in mainland USA get to vote so it’s a big deal.
That’s what I said. See Post 11.
Sorry missed it. Saw #12.
“The irony will be that black and Hispanic voters save the country from Upper Middle class whites. All that GOP-e garbage that Hispanics won’t vote for us unless we open the borders wide.”
BLM is, ironically, partially right on something. They’ll tell you all white folks are a scourge. The truth is that upper middle class white people who vote leftist truly are a scourge on the body politic.
“They do not vote in the election....just the primary.”
Unless they move to NYC or Florida.
I’m kind of wondering if long term, the Dems PR statehood ends up huring the Dems more than it helps. I know they just magically believe that anyone who isn’t fully white is just automatically no matter what going to vote lockstep for Dems, but I just don’t think this is going to be the case.
I do believe she is extremely unpopular. Staunch conservative GOP Puerto Ricans didn’t even vote for her in the primary of her (local) party against a democrat.
Wanda Vázquez is absolutely unqualified to hold a position of power. Her COVID lockdown orders were more draconian than anything that even Whitmer dreamt up, and some had no plausible connection to stopping the spread of the virus, such as a 7:00 p.m. curfew (later moved to 10:00 p.m., and *still being enforced*), shutting down grocery stores on Sundays (which wasn’t lifted until a couple of months ago), and not permitting the sale of alcohol at restaurants after 7:00 p.m. (also not lifted until a month or two ago). And not only has she been completely incompetent in running the government (she couldn’t even mail out the PPP checks without messing it up), she has expanded the benefits for government employees over and over again, undoing the common-sense labor reforms of prior governors and even sending “bonus checks” to government workers because of the pandemic *when government workers in Puerto Rico never stopped receiving a paycheck despite not having to go to work or even having to work from home*.
Wanda Vázquez claims to be a Republican because she’s a political ally of Republican Senate President Thomas Rivera-Schatz, but I would wager that she has no idea for what the Republican Party stands. I couldn’t imagine ever voting for Pedro Pierluisi in an NPP primary, and always had avoided doing so (one year he ran unopposed and I wrote in someone), but with “Titi Wandi” (she got stuck with that moniker, which means “Little Aunt Wanda,” due to her nanny-stateism and busybodyness) as the alternative I did so this year without hesitation.
I wouldn’t vote for them, either.
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