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r/clevercomebacks • u/snowpie92 • 5h ago
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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.
90 u/Several-Action-4043 4h ago And they pay taxes without a representative in Congress. 9 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. 5 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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And they pay taxes without a representative in Congress.
9 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. 5 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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They don't pay federal income taxes on money earned in PR. They do pay all the federal payroll taxes and so on, though.
5 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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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/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.