First of all, let me state for the record that our national pastime is just that: politics. We eat/breathe politics 24/7.
Sounds like a wonderful place for Gautam to live... :-)
We have under the umbrella of both our constitution and the US constitution. We have our local government, but we respond to the Feds 100%. We have no Free Trade Agreement, and all trade has to be done through US Customs. We pay taxes but we have no Senate representation; just a Resident Commissioner in Washington who in the case of the current appointed political sweet-potato, acts more like a paperweight or a doormat. We have US currency, as well.
We have US citizenship, which for us is a blessing, as controversial as that sounds. However, we still can't vote for the Presidency.
So, you pay taxes to the US government, but you don't get a say in who will be in that government, and you don't get a say in how your tax dollars are spent. No insult intended, but this sounds like Puerto Rico's primary function is that of a milk cow for the US government -- something like "pay up and shut up". :-(
This calls for revolution!
Jeroen "Political Observations" van Baardwijk
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