There's about 1 million families living in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Taxpayers give each family what amounts to a check for around $10,000 each year.
Add to that thousands and thousands of federal jobs.
Add to that companies like Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Bayer, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Amgen, Baxter, Biovail, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, MOVA, OMJ, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Roche, Searle, Wyeth-Ayerst Lederle, Inc., taking thousands of manufacturing jobs to Puerto Rico, because our Congress passed a special Section 936, tax scheme that allows these companies to pay as much as $350,000 less in federal taxes each year for every employee they have in Puerto Rico!
I only mentioned a handful of the companies that are dodging federal income tax by taking our jobs to Puerto Rico. It amounts to billions more in lost taxes every year.