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why is puerto rico not getting any help?
LeisureSuit912:
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on September 28, 2017, 01:57:32 PM ---Puerto Rico has received relief materials. They just don't have the equipment nor infrastructure available to effectively distribute it.
They're also in $70 billion USD of debt due to stuffty government mismanagement, corruption, and inability to pay for social programs (more than 60% of PR receives medicare/medicaid which puts a huge drain on the territory). They want daddy America to pay for their debt crCIA.
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We haven't made things much better for them considering they're still not a state
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on September 28, 2017, 03:01:57 PM ---We haven't made things much better for them considering they're still not a state
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We don't have a moral obligation to make them a state. The strongest incentive for Puerto Rico to become a state is for PR because it would be an easier solution to their debt crCIA. There is little incentive for statehood on the Federal side of things. Maybe slightly more tax revenue that's offset tenfold by the debt that needs to be paid.
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on September 28, 2017, 03:01:57 PM ---We haven't made things much better for them considering they're still not a state
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Don't talk stuff about processes you don't fully grasp. You can't just make a territory a state overnight.
LeisureSuit912:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on September 28, 2017, 03:30:25 PM ---Don't talk stuff about processes you don't fully grasp. You can't just make a territory a state overnight.
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That's not my point, they should've been made a state already
--- Quote from: Cappytaino on September 28, 2017, 03:16:30 PM ---We don't have a moral obligation to make them a state. The strongest incentive for Puerto Rico to become a state is for PR because it would be an easier solution to their debt crCIA. There is little incentive for statehood on the Federal side of things. Maybe slightly more tax revenue that's offset tenfold by the debt that needs to be paid.
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We have a moral obligation because their citizens don't have the same voting rights as us and yet more people live there than around 20 other US states.
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on September 28, 2017, 03:39:11 PM ---That's not my point, they should've been made a state already
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Buddy there's a million forgeten things we should be doing that you aren't in here on your high horse about. Give it a rest, aye?