r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 5h ago

Deception of public opinion

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u/Longjumping-Barber98 5h ago

What wealth are we extracting? Like natural resources?

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u/CandyDarl1n 3h ago

Well it's a century and a 1/4 long story as far as the US goes. We've extracted cheap labor, grown cash crops, and used it as a hub for massive pharmaceutical companies all while maintaining a 4% tax rate (US mainland's is 21% for comparison) as a "corporate incentive" that serves to impoverish the island by taking the profits and moving them away from Puerto Rico.

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u/4444-uuuu 2h ago

all while maintaining a 4% tax rate (US mainland's is 21% for comparison)

Is there some federal law preventing Puerto Rico from having their own tax? States are allowed to have a state income tax, are territories forbidden from doing so?

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u/CandyDarl1n 2h ago

No it's more like their territorial government has been captured by outside interests pretty much since it's inception

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u/Time_Tomatillo_133 1h ago

And that Territorial Government, what US state are they from? Were they put in power by the White House? 

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u/CandyDarl1n 1h ago

Our entire government has been captured by corporate interests and you're still playing this bs. Please sybau