Comments by "0IIIIII" (@0IIIIII) on "NBC News"
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@GusCraft460 you are wrong. I put the cart back always because I care for smart people with valid concerns, PR independence is not a valid concern, it’s a bad idea piggybacking off the emotional appeal for nostalgia, that’s all. Your comparing PR to 13 Colonies is poor, Puerto Rico is not the same as the 13 Colonies, Puerto Ricans do not pay federal income tax, firstly, so your argument “taxation without representation” doesn’t apply here. The status of being a US Territory is not one made by exploitation for the US’s benefit, it’s an arrangement made for Puerto Rico’s benefit, it comes with trade offs like residents not being able to vote for Presidency or having regular representation in Congress, but statehood is a mechanism to remedy that, if Puerto Rican residents want to change their status.
Even if it did apply, it still would be wrong. US is democratic, and there is no good reason for any secession from a democracy.
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