There are so many ways to funnel U.S. Taxpayer's dollars down there, off the general public's radar screen, and to line their pockets with them, once those dollars are there, that members of both parties are in on the act.
The Bush family has been raking in big bucks in Puerto Rico for 20 years. Jeb went down there, last year, and picked up $150,000 for his campaign. Clinton received his largest single contribution, of $250,000, from a Puerto Rican medicare hospital owner during his '96 campaign. Pepsi and Coke received an approximately $360,000, yearly, tax benefit, per employee, in Puerto Rico. Flour Daniels, pharmaceutical companies, hotels, etc. have received similar tax windfalls.
The Department of Labor paid for hundreds of Burger King employees, last year, in Old San Juan, with U.S. Taxpayer's dollars.
If this latest section 956 tax scheme goes through, the cost to the U.S. Taxpayer's will be enormous, but most will never even know about it. Just like most Taxpayers never heard of Section 936, 926 and all of the other tax scams perpetrated in Puerto Rico.
Why do you think the Bush family is in such a hurry to gift the 24,000, U.S. Taxpayer owned, acres on Vieques to the ingrates and corrupt politicians in Puerto Rico?
They know how to collect their share!