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September 26, 2017 11:18 AM UTC
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Trump is wrong because….?????
Puerto Rico gets a sweetheart deal. All the benefits of citizenship without the taxation. I might retire there!
Please. After you're settled in run down to the local dispensary and get some medication.
Without the representation too. You might retire there? From what Moldy? Your brain is already retired, if it was ever active to begin with.
No representation??? . . .
. . . as in, "no taxation without"??? . . .
WTF, Fluffynutz??? — now you gotta' forfeit your three-corner hat, your leather breeches, and your Gadsden Flag — you're just not worthy!!
Maybe you should consider Costa Rica and take your buddy LimpBalls with you? Bonus: as a permanent resident you, too, can benefit from universal health care!
I think he should opt out of it. Since he wants to take it from everybody else.
Not surprisingly, you're wrong. Puerto Ricans pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, even though they receive less benefits than mainlanders.
They are exempt from U.S. individual income tax, but that is a mixed bag. First, the average Puerto Rican probably wouldn't owe any U.S. income tax since incomes are low compared to the mainland. Second, they also don't benefit from the EITC and child care credits.
About half of Puertoriquenos pay Federal taxes (income, payroll, Medicare, Social Security). However, they don't get the same level of tax benefits – earned income credit, and child tax credit – and they get no voting representation in Congress. And most Puerto Ricans are so poor that they have no tax liability.
So it really is "taxation without representation". If you retired there, you would be paying US income tax as you do here, but without the tax breaks mainland citizens enjoy.
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Washington, DC…all of these commonwealth territories need to be treated equally. Three guesses why Republicans don't want that to happen.
ED: Beat me to it, Old time Dem!
Give the SodaFountainOfJustice a break, huh??? . . .
I mean, he's got a professional football league to run!!!! He's doing everything a dotard can do just trying to teach all those stupid son-of-a-bitches the words to the National Anthem . . .
. . . you try running everything in the whole damn world from atop your golden crapper with only 140 characters . . .
"Stay safe" — DonnieT to Puerto Rico (See, he cares, he really cares!!! . . . )
When San Juan finally gets its act together and builds a professional football stadium (real American football — not that soccer shit) or a Trump motel, you'll see some yuge action, bigley!! Bootstraps people . . .
Trump's adventure in Puerto Rico:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielwagner/trumps-puerto-rican-golfing-trip-that-ended-in-bankruptcy?utm_term=.jw8VLeZnL#.ps3Ea1Yza
Well at least he didn't say, "I can see Puerto Rico from one of my windows at Mar-A-Lago."
"…A very big ocean..". Except it's not. It's in the Carribean Sea. It's still hemmed in by water, but The Yam flunks geography. I guess he paid some other kid to take those tests, too.
Actually, it isa prettybig ocean. The map shows North Atlantic ocean to the north, which is no pond. Worse, the Jones Act limits commerce between u.s. ports to scarce and expensive u.s. Flag shipping.
He won't go there, not for a long time, and by then he will have forgotten about PR. He won't go because it's so damn hard to get there right now. The ports are closed due to sunken boats. The airports are barely functioning as the weather radar blew away in the storm.