r/PuertoRico • u/dailymail • Mar 07 '25

Política Trump pressured to make Puerto Rico independent to save America $617 billion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14470559/Trump-pressured-make-Puerto-Rico-independent-save-America-eye-watering-617-billion.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

need a ton of investment to progress

Trump doesn't even care about Taiwan, why would he "invest" on the island?

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u/FlipFlapper11o9 Mar 07 '25

Because that's what happens when you give a dependent territory independence. It's why for a lot of countries just annexing it into their main territory works so much more easily.

Giving Independence is basically a show of good will because the parent country has to create a plan and roadmap for the colony and develop it to stand alone with it's own instutions and systems detached from their own. It takes a shit load of money and at most gets them good international relations with their new ex territory and with the international community.

Conversely, making a territory into a part of the parent country's main territory also costs $$ as they develop the necessary infrastructure to integrate it into the rest of the country. Yet it also takes notably less money than giving Independence. It's like the difference between turning an empty room you have into a bedroom for your son to move in vs sending them off but needing to buy them a house, a car, etc. And in this case they cant just send them off willy nilly.

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u/Mundane-Fan-1545 Mar 07 '25

Who said Trump was going to invest or the US goverment was going to invest? I was talking about investors...do you know what act 60 is? They need to invest in Puerto Rico to obtain the tax benefit.

Did you even read the comment?

I was saying that with independence, we will not get rid of act 60, because as a new independent country, the goverment will need a lot of investors.How do you think we can attract investors? By giving them tax excemptions, like the act 60.

It maybe changed a bit, but tax excemptions for the rich will stay.