Thread: The Political Status Of Puerto Rico (again)
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Old 06-06-2008, 06:12 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ricardo View Post
I believe in StateHood because I am proud to be an American Citizen and I believe that we should have the same rights as mainland Americans do even if we have to pay taxes. I don't believe in handouts and I am sure that the leaders of ELA (the commonwealth) don't mind the handouts. They live off of U.S. taxpayers and they only care that the U.S. protects us militarily and sends us plenty of U.S. funds. We have over 300 miles of beautiful beaches that could make Puerto Rico one of the first and best tourist areas of the world, but they prefer the handouts. Puerto Rico will continue to be a colony because we are a goldmine for many U.S. politicians when it comes to campaign funds for their personal campaigns. All they have to do is to derail any status solution in congress and they get their campaign funds to do it. I guess we will continue as a colony as long as U.S. taxpayers don't mind paying 22 Billions every year to maintain a colony. This could continue for 50 or 100 more years, who knows. Meanwhile hundreds and maybe thousands of U.S. taxpayers will lose their homes to foreclosure. I think I'll leave this to first class Americans to figure out if they want to continue this relation. I give up, it's not my money they are wasting. But, thanks anyway.

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Well I agree that it would be nice to have full citizenship rights but it is a hard sell. I, nor the federal government have anything to do with those homeowners that lost or are losing their homes to foreclosure. For tourism, Marriot is building a rather large casino on Base Ramey near Aguadilla. As fuel prices increase for airlines more and more US mainlanders will choose the Caribbean and Puerto Rico for an alternative to Hawaii. I think the islands future is pretty bright either way the statehood is decided if we can maintain a good fuel supply. You must keep in mind that if PR were to become a state it would have to end its almost 7% import tax of American goods and the replacement tax would be taken out of our pay.