Puerto Rico Votes to Become a State....Oust Gov Luis Fortuño. (Congress, Brown)

[All American NYC]

Puerto Rican voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure endorsing U.S. statehood but also unseated pro-statehood Republican Gov. Luis Fortuño..... Nearly 54 percent voted they were not satisfied with the island's current status and 46 percent voted to keep it the same. Just over 61 percent voted in favor of statehood and 33 percent backed sovereign free association,.....Because the statehood measure passed does not automatically mean that Puerto Rico will become the 51st state in the union. Congress ultimately has to approve any change in status for the island

Why would we want Puerto Rico to become a state? They're already a big drain on welfare! They come and work here in the US for ten months out of the year and then go back and not have to pay any federal taxes

[jeffpv]

If they became a state, wouldn't they then pay federal taxes?

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Why would we want Puerto Rico to become a state? They're already a big drain on welfare! They come and work here in the US for ten months out of the year and then go back and not have to pay any federal taxes

Didn't see this?

http://www.city-data.com/forum/polit...yesterday.html

[Mac_Muz]

Let them suffer right along with the rest of us.... it's lefty pay up time, besides I like that island....

[HappyTexan]

Why would a people vote to start paying Fed Income tax is beyond me.
They already had access to programs with no taxes.

Education has really dumbed down people, hasn't it ?

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Why would we want Puerto Rico to become a state? They're already a big drain on welfare! They come and work here in the US for ten months out of the year and then go back and not have to pay any federal taxes

Because they will vote Democrat, you silly.

[chielgirl]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Why would we want Puerto Rico to become a state? They're already a big drain on welfare! They come and work here in the US for ten months out of the year and then go back and not have to pay any federal taxes

Gosh and golly, we don't want no more of them "brown people" in the US.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

Gosh and golly, we don't want no more of them "brown people" in the US.

Oh no...the race card.
Whodathunkit?

[HappyTexan]

Race, shmace. What fools would vote themselves to be taxed ? And for no good reason either. They had the best of both worlds..access to all programs and taxed for none.

[lvoc]

Should be a no brainer. Almost three million people and US Citizens. Fantastic potential as a tourist destination.

they may very well be democrats for a decade or two...but then the individual capitalist streak cuts in and they go Repub. Or we export a lot of Cuban-Americans from Miami....

I can't see maintaining it as a welfare haven.

If we won't let them in then cut them loose.