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Well, I don't support statehood or independence, but I can answer you.
1. PR is taxing all it's people. It taxes them 30+%. If it became a state it would have to pay federal taxes as well. Also remember though that PR would have control over the distribution of money in Washington. Every State has "pork" given to it because they have representation. PR does not, so it can not get any extra money out of Washington unless there is a Huricane.
2. If PR became a state, it would NOT pay billions to the Federal government. It may pay a few million. You have to remember that the federal tax system is based on "income". PR has a 13% unemployment rate, so they would be on unemployment and can't pay anything. Since PR would come in as the poorest state it would recieve more money then it woud pay. Let me give you an example. For every dollar NY sends to Washington, it only get's back about 65 cents. For evey dollar Mississippi sends to Washington they get back $1.40 from the government. The government takes money from the richer states to help the poorer states. Most of the aid going to the southern states is for economic development. If you have been to places like Georgia, N. Carolina, etc. you see the construction of highways, railways, etc. That money is from taxpayers in all states not just Georgia, Mississippi, etc. If Puerto Rico were a state it would have 6 Congressman, and 2 senators that would help control the purse strings of the budget, and you can be sure that they will take more for the island. That is how polititions get reelected. They bring back money from Washington.
3. This is a joke. I'm sure you really believe this, which is even more scarey! If
"rich white people" wanted to make it easy on themselves, then why did they keep the names "Los Angeles", "San Francisco", "San Diego", "San Antonio", "Miami", "Pheonex", "California", "Colorado", "Texas", etc? Why would they move to PR if they were rich? They could do it now if they wanted to, but they like Florida much better. Besides you said yourself PR has too many taxes! Rich people don't like taxes.
4.Don't you think the people would want to take a foreign language? I'm sure they can take one now. People have choices. I had the choice of taking:German, French, Italian, or Spanish in school. Currently English and Spanish are both listed as "official langages" of Puerto Rico.
5. If everyone in Puerto Rico moved to the US like you said, the island would be filled with white rich english speaking people, so why not have television in english? There would be no one in PR who spoke spanish anymore according to you.
Seriously: Why would a television company change all of it's programs from Spanish to English? First of all that isn't very good business they will loose subscribers. Secondly there is no market in Puerto Rico for ALL english television shows!
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