How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich

Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by fastball on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:28PM (#18019306)

If you can't be a self-sustaining region without being a tax haven then maybe you shouldn't be a populated region.

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by DennisP on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:46PM (#18019961)

The U.S. is a popular tax haven for people in other countries, and the City of London is the center of a whole network of tax havens. It's not just remote islands looking for a way to scrape by.

A great book on how it all works is Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson.

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by cycrutchfield on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:15PM (#18020147)

What percent of US states are not "self-sustaining regions", by the measure of net contribution to the federal coffers?

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by liberte82 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:47PM (#18019963)

Let's blame the people then, not the colonizers who got this whole system set up in the first place, eh?

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by leetcrew on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:15PM (#18019695)

okay, what should we do about all the people on the island then?

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by fastball on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:15PM (#18020145)

They should move, as any population should when their homeland can no longer sustain them?

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Re:How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich by s73v3r_ on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:50PM (#18021293)

With what money?

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