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I'm not sure that more than 50% of Puerto Rico wants to be a state.
They vote on it rather frequently. They do at the moment but it does waffle a bit.
If "no vote" was a candidate I don't think we would have had a president since Jefferson.
Now that's an idea.
What are the downsides to becoming a state?
Puerto Rico doesn't pay federal taxes
Poor people voting against their own interests because a rich asshole told them to is an American tradition, I guess they’re definitely ready!
I’m sure there’s good reasons involving Cultural identity and policy disagreement that they wouldn’t want to become a state, but it really seems like it would be a huge win financially.
It would be Missouri yet again holding the bag. They’d no longer be able to plead poverty for more federal funding.