Though Puerto Ricans don’t pay federal taxes, Puerto Rico pays the U.S. more than $3bn in taxes a year. They can’t vote for President and their Resident Commissioner can’t vote in Congress. It’s literally taxation without representation.
It truly is. Puerto Rico has given the U.S. its people to fight in wars, it’s land to be stripped of resources and it was even a military testing ground and yet, Puerto Rico has no say it what happens to its island or its people. And on top of it all, most Americans don’t know Puerto Ricans are citizens.
Though Puerto Ricans don’t pay federal taxes, Puerto Rico pays the U.S. more than $3bn in taxes a year. They can’t vote for President and their Resident Commissioner can’t vote in Congress. It’s literally taxation without representation.
It truly is. Puerto Rico has given the U.S. its people to fight in wars, it’s land to be stripped of resources and it was even a military testing ground and yet, Puerto Rico has no say it what happens to its island or its people. And on top of it all, most Americans don’t know Puerto Ricans are citizens.
We are free to fight for and pay into this country but not enough to be truly free on these lands.