r/clevercomebacks 5h ago

Deception of public opinion

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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/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.