Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Will Puerto Rico become the 51st state of the UNITED STATES?" video.

  1. And they can all pay their share of income taxes
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  2.  @EGGP359  - Medicare, Medicaid, social security care are entitlement [or insurance] programs for the poor & elderly, and not income tax
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  3. And people start paying income tax
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  4. Cuz the Jones Act really does not matter. Any country can ship directly to Puerto Rico, but their ports are not big enough to receive massive container ships from around the world. The Jones Act does not change that. Only high cost from the US to PR or High sale value cargo to the US from PR cargo is covered by Jones Act. Whenever there is a natural disaster, the US President waves the act during that emergency, anyway. If China wanted, they could easily acquire a whole port in PR, by offering them construction & dredging, with a payback at 8%, which PR may fail to pay, and it would become Chinese territory for 100 years. The Jones Act limits colonization from other players like China, by limiting foreign options to exploit PR ports from shipping to the mainland U.S. In essence, the Jones Act offers PR to build their own maritime fleet for transportation, which would be cheaper than US mainland shipping because of their cheap taxes… if only Puerto Rico would decide to execute on it & start undercutting mainland US shipping. If PR is ever to become an independent nation, they need their own maritime fleet, which the Jones Act protects them to build, before independence. If PR ever wants to become independent, they will need a Coast Guard / Navy, and the Jones Act is helping to facilitate building a merchant marine which could be conscripted after their independence. I am not sure why PR does not use the Jones Act to their fiscal benefit… to eventually become independent.
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