Don't worry, Luis Gutierrez has got this.

Archie: All we're saying is Puerto Ricans ought to stay in Puerto Rico. We don't go to their country to live. Why should they come to ours?
Mike: Puerto Rico is part of this country.
Archie: No, no, no. It ain't a state.
Gloria: They have commonwealth status.
Archie: I bet they probably ain't vaccinated for that.

Didn’t PR vote for statehood last year? And Congress denied?

If they don't pay taxes then we should do the humane thing and cut them lose and let them have self rule.

Didn’t PR vote for statehood last year? And Congress denied?

Make them a state already!

I’m sick and tired of this 50 Star flag. I hope in my lifetime we can get to 54 states so we can have the canton uniformed again like the good ole 48 Star flag.

Biggest mistake by Esienhower was signing EO 10834. The current 50 Star flag should be 5 rows of 10 stars nicely uniformed on the canton. Not this checkerboard bullshit.

Should be a state or nothing. We shouldn't have different classifications of citizenry.

I vehemently disagree.

Fuck him

Should be a state or nothing. We shouldn't have different classifications of citizenry.

Kind of an interesting history into how PR got so screwed up economically. Not surprisingly the U.S. government played a huge role in their downfall.
http://www.businessinsider.com/puerto-rico-debt-2017-10

They are not captive in this union, if they dont like they are absolutely free to leave.

When you talk to Puerto Ricans, they do not want to pay federal income tax. They don’t like paying any other federal taxes, and they don’t like paying their (newly increased) sales taxes.

Would never have guessed they were that level of pro-Republican.

Remove the racism that hit the party post 2008 and they probably would have drifted that way.

Change that to around 1968 and you would be spot on.

During the Bush years, the party was gaining a ton of Hispanic voters. That stopped after the Tea Party hijacked the party.

So that's why Bush won Florida.

Should be a state or nothing. We shouldn't have different classifications of citizenry.

Puerto Ricans (excluding government workers) do not pay a federal income tax. While they are a U.S. commonwealth and there are some benefits to that, they are not an equal state and they are not intended to be a United States charity case. When you talk to Puerto Ricans, they do not want to pay federal income tax. They don’t like paying any other federal taxes, and they don’t like paying their (newly increased) sales taxes. When you don’t pay taxes, you don’t get the benefit of that revenue paying for your infrastructure and other improvements.

Now we have this new island-wide power blackout, and same as last year's hurricane fall out, there is a huge outcry that the U.S. government isn't holding up their end of the bargain.

Are Puerto Ricans trying to get too much out of the federal government? Where do they think all this money comes from?

EDIT: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/us/puert ... index.html