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Puerto Rico to join the US as the 51st state?

Asked by oratio (8940points) May 28th, 2009

As I understand it Puerto Rico is a state in the US commonwealth in which the population are American citizens, pay federal taxes, has congress representatives and can join as the 51st state if they so chose.

I would be very interested to hear peoples thoughts and opinions about why or why not Puerto Rico should join the US fully.

Would it serve a purpose, or is there no reason to change the status of Puerto Rico?

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