It's a pretty minipulitive bill to force Puerto Rico to vote for statehood, which they have avoided in the past.
They pay less taxes and get all the benifits now.
It would be the first state to largely speak Spanish.
It could provide some work force advantages.
2007-09-26 07:22:21 · 4 answers · asked by Commandant Marcos 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I don't know what effect it would have on immigration. As it is, Puerto Ricans are free to come and go as they please, so it wouldn't change the numbers of workers, etc. If anything, I would like to see them decide to either become a state or go independent, instead of hanging in a sort of limbo that they are now. Should there be enough support (I don't know if there is), and Puerto Rico decides to join the Union as the 51st state, I'd be fine with that. At least then they'd share the same tax burden, while getting some of the additional priviledges, like voting.
2007-09-26 07:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I think it is ludicrous.
My take on it is that the non-voting rep in Congress for Puerto Rico wants more power that he would get as a voting rep, so he came up with this bill to force Puerto Rico, which has voted more than once that it wants to stay as is, to vote between the two LOSING propositions from the prior elections, with status quo being removed. If they don't vote for statehood, the question would keep coming up, automatically, ad infinitum, until they wear down and vote for it.
Cheesy, if you ask me.
Saying they should vote again on the three options they voted for before, is one thing. This is something else.
2007-09-26 15:24:22 · answer #2 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They do need to make a choice, independence or statehood. This in between existence has gone on long enough, commonwealth status was never intended to be permanent.
2007-09-26 17:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by Drixnot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't trust any of their bills. So my vote is bad.
2007-09-26 14:25:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋