NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION!..............................
It doesn’t matter what we want. The Democrats are going to do what they want. Nothing we can do about it. The Democrats have learned there are no consequences for anything they do, so they do as they please, the rest of us be damned. Nope, we’re done.
Eastern California has a nice ring to it.
I think there are enough votes on the Court to keep DC statehood from happening. Constitutionally, it’s not even a close call. Despite the HUGE early disappointment in Barrett and Kavanugh and to a lessor degree, Gorsuch, I don’t think even they can ignore the plain language of the USC as it applies here.
PR is another story. Congress is fully within its power to grant statehood to that failed project.
What I’m not sure about is if they can do it with the filibuster still in place. I hope not, but I’m not sure.
DC can’t be a state. If they vote to make it a state, then Maryland can claim it and re-absorb it back into the State of Maryland from which it used to be a part of. Basically, it would become a city in Maryland.
Anyone believe the people of puerto rico want to be a state and pay federal taxes?
DC statehood? Would mean it is all over for our present form of government. The Union would begin to experience “state packing” to even things out. No end to it.
Talk about a welfare money pit and that is PR. It is OK to have a referendum down there where statehood is approved but there had better be a referendum in the USA asking the same question.
There is nothing in PR that is of any benefit to the USA. No large deposits of rare earths, oil, etc. Nothing. Vacation sites do not count. They employ a few locals but that contributes nothing positive to the USA.
Forget PR as a state.
Changing the entire nation on the basis of a massive crime.
How historical.
One can never accuse the Rats of being faint of heart when it comes to crime.
So, if PR is made a state, will all the blacks there demand a share of slave reparations because the SPANISH imported them to the island? That should be Spain’s problem.
The debt of a prospective “state” HAS to be addressed, and creating a state out of PR would destroy what little economy it has now.
For the current federal oversight- appointed in March 2017- the executive director of the Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico. Appointed by dems and repubs in 2017 Congress!! Who else but fellow grifters.See this demonrat machine plant (the Former Minister of Finance for— Ukraine under Poroshenko), an “American of Ukrainian/Russian descent.... cannot make this up (pals with Burisma and the fired Ukrainian ambassador who lied at the Trump impeachment- Russian/Canadian Voyanovych). A Ukrainian citizen appointed to Puerto Rico— what could go wrong?
NATALIE JARESKO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jaresko
Okay, hard to argue about Puerto Rico—give them independence or make them a state. But DC, no way. Give the residential areas back to Maryland where they originated. Likely have to pay Maryland to take them back but that’d be cheaper and more realistic than making it a city-state.
Wouldn’t making PR a state be the height of colonialism? I thought Leftists were against that.
Let those people be free and independent.....of us!
If there is any lesson to learn from what has happened over the last six weeks, it’s that the Democrats can, have and WILL do anything they want.
With SCOTUS turning a blind eye to all they have done, they are able to execute there plans with an “in your face” attitude.
Yeah, they’ll get statehood for DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and others. That’ll get them two senators and one congressman for each new state.
And, of course, because the country is now larger, we’ll need to have a few more SCOTUS justices to help handle the load. Four or six new justices just might do the trick . . .
If they do it, I may just buy property there.
The Puerto Rican people better watch out you’re about to be Screwed Big Time by the Democrats
Naw! There has to be overwhelming support within Puerto Rico to make it a state. Since opinion is nearly evenly divided then statehood is now not likely.