Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily
by dragonwriter on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:29PM
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People moving from Puerto Rico to the US aren't living in a different country. They’ll continue to pay taxes to the same country (in fact, more taxes to the country), but they won't pay local taxes in Puerto Rico, for the same reason a US citizen who used to live in San Francisco but now lives in Salt Lake City doesn't pay taxes in San Francisco or California.
Puerto Rico is a US colony (or, more politely, territory), not a foreign country.
Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily
by irrational on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:26PM
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Well, PR is not a different country. Puerto Ricans are Americans. When they live in PR they pay "state" taxes to PR. But if they are living in NY then they will pay NY state taxes, not PR "state" taxes.
Re:Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life and Death Daily
by emodendroket on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:21AM
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Puerto Rico is not one of these extremely underdeveloped economies where the only work is in tourism. In fact the pharmaceutical industry is facing a bunch of shortages since PR is a major manufacturing hub for them.
With most infrastructures distroyed, tourism industry in Puerto Rico will not employ much people for some time probably, so many Puerto Ricans will be unable to pay a lot of taxes in any case, not if they remain in the island.