Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Maxine Waters wrote:So why shouldn't Puerto Ricans have the same responsibility as US citizens to pay personal federal US income tax? They seem to be entitled to all the same benefits.

for what it's worth, almost half of US citizens don't end up paying any federal income tax.
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for what it's worth, almost half of US citizens don't end up paying any federal income tax.


And I'm sure most Puerto Ricans would fall into that category which is probably why we can't afford to annex them in the first place. But those that don't should have to pay like the rest of us.
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Maxine Waters wrote:So why shouldn't Puerto Ricans have the same responsibility as US citizens to pay personal federal US income tax? They seem to be entitled to all the same benefits.

for what it's worth, almost half of US citizens don't end up paying any federal income tax.


That's crazy to me. I think everyone ought to contribute, even if it's tantamount to a symbolic hondo, knowwhatimsayin? But then again I'd get rid of all tax deductions and I'd tax everyone at a graduated flat rate. Figure out dat budget, pay for it, take our extra and put into rainy day accounts for the old and genuinely infirm.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:That's crazy to me. I think everyone ought to contribute, even if it's tantamount to a symbolic hondo, knowwhatimsayin? But then again I'd get rid of all tax deductions and I'd tax everyone at a graduated flat rate. Figure out dat budget, pay for it, take our extra and put into rainy day accounts for the old and genuinely infirm.

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I was single and childless until my mid-30's. The very first tax return I filed with my wife and son blew my mind.

It made me want to go out and kiss all of the unmarried childless people out there for making socialism such a beautiful thing at tax time. It also made me start to chuckle every time I see one of my friends that has 3+ kids complain about taxes, or socialism. If they only knew...
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No kidding. It's just my wife and I this year and we'll be cutting a check to the IRS that will pinch us a bit. Do I feel aggrieved? Do I feel angry? Do I wish my money would be spent 'here' instead of 'over there'? No. No. Yes.

And you know what? I'm ok with it. I don't drive my dream car. I don't live in a mansion. I don't fly first class. And I don't feel cheated, short changed on life, or angry at, as KG would say, "brown and black" people.

In fact. I'd be willing to pay more into the treasury if we could eliminate loopholes, get our fiscals in order, and build a beautiful America. Taxes aren't bad. It's a shame so many feel victimized by them.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
You're barking up the wrong tree. I think they should be brought into the union or cut loose.

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Doc, the US administors 16 territories and you don't seem to get why that is?
(Check Article 4 and the Supreme Court for spoiler)
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subgenius wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
You're barking up the wrong tree. I think they should be brought into the union or cut loose.

- Doc

Doc, the US administors 16 territories and you don't seem to get why that is?
(Check Article 4 and Supreme Court for spoiler)


I don't understand what the fugitive slave clause has to do with anything.

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This is weird:

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/pue ... ane-maria/

The local power authority was hiding and hoarding badly needed supplies meant to be used for rebuilding PR's electrical infrastructure. Apparently it was so bad the US Government had to raid the facility with armed agents and hand out the supplies.

“Due to the size of the warehouse,” Vera said, accounting for everything contained therein is still underway days later. Among the materials recovered so far are “2,875 pieces of critical material to contractors” along with the sleeves of full-tension steel, a component of Puerto Rican electrical infrastructure required to erect new power lines. PREPA did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment, though in a statement to the Associated Press, it rejected allegations that it had failed to distribute the warehouse’s contents. The AP only reported that “officials over the weekend also discovered some needed materials in a previously overlooked warehouse owned by Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority.”


A security contractor who recently returned from Puerto Rico told The Intercept that crews of linemen brought down from the U.S. were frustrated about the lack of rebuilding materials, which made it virtually impossible for them to fix downed infrastructure. Paraphrasing conversations with the electric crews he accompanied, the source said one worker told him that “we just sat in the truck and watched a movie because we have nothing to do today. … Around Christmas, a lot of the power workers were saying, ‘We’re going on vacation because we couldn’t do our job because PREPA was making it so difficult.’” The source’s job involved escorting contractors tasked with reconstructing downed power lines; he was deployed on the island for over a month by a subcontractor of Cobra Acquisitions LLC, which in the fall received a $200 million contract with PREPA to repair its grid.


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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Um.

Yeah.

That's weird.
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School gets electricity after 112 days and kids go nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9vfR7yU6Bk
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