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(Therefore I feel that right now it is not in either our best intrest or their best intrest for them to become a state. It would be in our best intrest for them to become an independent nation, and best for them to remain as they are -which has been afirmed by the fact that this is how their citizens have voted)

Citing http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa031698.htm, Residents of Puerto Rico, who if born there are considered US citizens, have choosen that they do not want to become a state. That would mean they would have to pay federal income taxes. Right now all US citizens who live in Puerto Rico do not have to pay taxes to the federal government on income earned in Puerto Rico. The US has basically maintained that Puerto Rico has the option to becom