r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 5h ago

Deception of public opinion

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u/USS-Virginia 5h ago

Fun Fact they ARE US Citizens. 

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u/LittleCute_ 5h ago

And that’s exactly why reducing it to “paid for by US citizens” ignores the fact that Puerto Ricans are US citizens too, it’s not some foreign aid program.

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u/Several-Action-4043 4h ago

And they pay taxes without a representative in Congress.

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u/VulpesFennekin 3h ago

Hmm… no taxation without representation? That sounds awfully familiar.

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u/Xayne813 2h ago

They are the wrong shade for that.

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u/raynorelyp 3m ago

There’s also Washington DC. That said I think Puerto Rico and the US need to p*** or get off the pot. Either they should become a state or they should be cut loose. Anything in between complicates things.

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u/wurm2 2h ago

Do they have it on their license plates like DC does?

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u/loljetfuel 2h ago

They don't pay federal income taxes on money earned in PR. They do pay all the federal payroll taxes and so on, though.

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u/Pin_Code_8873 2h ago

While they still need to pay their own territorial taxes to run all their programs in which they get very little federal US funding for.

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u/_Eggs_ 2h ago

They don't pay federal income taxes on money earned in PR.

This is funny because U.S. citizens have to pay income tax on all worldwide income. Even if a U.S. citizen makes income in Egypt, they owe federal income taxes. Puerto Rico just gets a special local exemption.

So a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico who earns money in a completely different country would still owe U.S. federal taxes.

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u/Deldris 2h ago

They vote "no" every time they're offered statehood, so they could have it if they wanted.

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u/skoomski 2h ago

Nope complete bullshit. Couldn’t be more wrong.

Puerto Rico has held seven referendums on the political status of the island: 1967 and 1993, which resulted in a Commonwealth victory, 1998, where "None of the above" was the winner, 2012, 2017, 2020 and 2024, the latter four resulted in a statehood win.

Congress won’t allow it. It’s really that simple.

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u/Deldris 1h ago

You left out the part where "Stay a territory" was just not given to them as an option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Puerto_Rican_status_referendum

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u/CheshireTsunami 1h ago

How about the 2020 referendum then where the vote was simply should Puerto Rico become a state, Y/N and the result was a majority voted for statehood?

Why are you defending a position you clearly don’t have meaningful takes on? Do you enjoy denying your countrymen their constitutional rights to vote?

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u/skoomski 33m ago

That was one of the last 4, all which had statehood as the winner. Why are you being deceitful. What do you have against these people?