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by fweespeech
2029 days ago
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/4/16385658/p.... > Puerto Rico is a US territory and not a state, so its residents don’t pay federal income tax unless they work for the US government. Even so, workers there pay the majority of federal taxes that Americans on the mainland pay — payroll taxes, social security taxes, business taxes, gift taxes, estate taxes and so on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Puerto_Rico_locations_.... > In 2017, Puerto Rico had a median household income of $19,775 — the lowest of any state or territory in the United States. ---- > PR residents are actively against the idea mainly because they don't pay fed taxes. They do. They don't pay income tax which with their low incomes is marginal anyway. |
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