Minimum Wage Bill Slammed In American Samoa

[ClaireSolt]

I agree with you, and I think if we do another amnesty, we will continue to have two econmies, one with many benefits and guarantees and another with none.

[CholeraJoe]

America’s offshore slave colonies (Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, USVI) only like something when it involves no taxes or free handouts.

[T-Bird45]

What is the USA doing with Samoa? Cut them loose.

Samoa is just raising the offensive/defensive linemen the rest of America won't.

Alternative answer: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aq.html

Primary reason is noted in the CIA webpage above: best deepwater natural port in the SW Pacific, was strategically important in WW2 and maintained afterwards for that same reason.