So, I was playing this game online the other day when this guy joins and he can hardly speak English. He tells us he is from Puerto Rico and somewhere in the back of my head I remember that the place is somehow US territoy. I asked him if it was part of the US and he said it was, but I understand that it is not a state.
Does this mean as a US citizen that I can just go to Puerto Rico whenever I feel like it? Why is it not considered a state?
> What is Puerto Rico?
A military base.
> Does this mean as a US citizen that I can just go to Puerto Rico whenever I feel like it?
Don't be ridiculous. Nobody wants to go to Puerto Rico.
> Why is it not considered a state?
Because if it was a state you'd have to raise their standard of living and let them vote.
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This comes up over and over. Puerto Rico has been offered statehood again and again and again. The residents keep on voting against it, because it means they'd have to pay income tax instead of just collecting welfare.
There's this bizarre trap that's been keeping Puerto Ricans on the island from resolving this situation once and for all...most people would like to see it become an independent nation, but are too afraid of becoming an ineptly run dictatorship like Cuba or just ineptly run poverty dump like the Dominican Republic, so they opt for what's safe...as for statehood, unbelievably a sizable portion of the populace thinks it could be a possibility, but such a proposal would never get off the ground in the US Congress, and ultimately would harm an economy where people have half the GDP of the poorest US state (Mississippi). So, tl;dr: PR, one way or another, will be cast off as independent at the US' earliest convenience.
Not every shitty little island needs to have its own government, anyways. I say keep them as a commonwealth.
Friendly reminder that this shitty little island has more people than any of Oregon, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire. Hawaii. Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware. South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
I think we should get rid of (merge into other states) Rhode Island (it practically doesn't exist anyways) or that one state that's full of unemployed welfare mongers that I always keep forgetting and replace it with Puerto Rico. That way we'll keep our stars at an even 50.
That's the major issue here. The US has hit an even 50 states and we don't want to add more.
You should also let Mexico annex Texas and replace it with Iceland.