House Passes Bill That Would Allow Puerto Rico to Vote on Its Statehood or Independence

Discussion in 'Politics' started by kmgilroy89, Dec 18, 2022.

  1. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Make all territories states.4 of the 5 territories are as liberal as Hawaii or more and the 5th would be a purple state.
     
    #11     Dec 18, 2022
  2. None of the other territories have a population of 200,000 so they won't be in a discussion. However, there has been talk of combining the Pacific territories with Hawaii and making them greater Hawaii. If you combine Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands you're getting close to 300,000 people which could make the difference in adding or keeping a House member at some point. Combining the USVI and PR would make sense as well (even though they are culturally very different).
     
    #12     Dec 18, 2022
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Adjustments would be made over time and in the long term it would be best for PR imo.They aren't doing that well on thier own


     
    #13     Dec 18, 2022
  4. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Dems can make it happen with a Dem Pres and simple majority in both Houses.They can make the discussion.
     
    #14     Dec 18, 2022
  5. They aren't fully on their own and they would probably be doing worse if they were. They have the highest GDP/capita by far of any Spanish speaking country in the Caribbean.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

    This is despite having few natural resources. As I mentioned before, being able to change their tax code to entice American investment is something no other country in the world can do, because of the taxation by citizenship status of our country.
     
    #15     Dec 18, 2022
  6. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    If you are The Demcart party why not go for it all? Not an insult to you but Dems like you are the problem imo.After seeing what Trump and McConnell did the last 6 years any Dem should support never letting that happen again.If Dems make DC and the territories states it wouldn't happen again.If they had did under Obama Trump and McConnells damage never would have happened.
     
    #16     Dec 18, 2022
  7. Crypto colonizers? Can't take these people too seriously. Without Act 60 nobody would be investing in the country at all. Hardly pillaging the country of its resources and killing the Native population. The smartest thing there was mention of the Jones Act which is a protectionist disaster that should be repealed. It's probably one of the dumbest laws we have on the books. Even with that bill we basically build no merchant ships.
     
    #17     Dec 18, 2022
  8. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    I only posted that to show how bad PR currently is,no idea about the crypto stuff.

    Pretty sure if The GOP had a constitutional way to add 10 permanent Senate seats they would.
     
    #18     Dec 18, 2022
  9. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    DOA virtue signaling bill that's only worth discussing academically.
     
    #19     Dec 19, 2022
  10. All you have to do is show the Puerto Ricans this...

    San Juan mayor: Puerto Ricans won’t forget images of Trump throwing paper towels to hurricane survivors

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    and there's video.....






    and the victory dance.....
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    #20     Dec 19, 2022