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fweespeech | 5 years ago
> Puerto Rico is a US territory and not a state, so its residents don’t pay federal income tax unless they work for the US government. Even so, workers there pay the majority of federal taxes that Americans on the mainland pay — payroll taxes, social security taxes, business taxes, gift taxes, estate taxes and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rico_locations_....
> In 2017, Puerto Rico had a median household income of $19,775 — the lowest of any state or territory in the United States.
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> PR residents are actively against the idea mainly because they don't pay fed taxes.
They do. They don't pay income tax which with their low incomes is marginal anyway.
vxNsr|5 years ago