PR would be better off to declare itself separate from the US....become a country, and attract companies via a tax-free status to set up and provide jobs for the economy.
Their problem is their socialist big government approach.
We shouldn’t bail them out, they should simply reform their approach to their economy.
But if/since they won’t, I wouldn’t mind seeing them go. They never would, of course, because they wouldn’t want to lose our subsidies and US citizenship.
“PR would be better off to declare itself separate from the US....become a country, and attract companies via a tax-free status to set up and provide jobs for the economy.”
PR cannot run itself. It’s just plain ol’ Latin American corruption that holds it back. If they became a country - the Social Security, Disability, and Medicare/Medicaid payments would stop and the population would starve.
The smart and productive leave the island.
PR will be competing with Cuba for investment dollars now. It doesn’t look good for them.
Maybe.
IIRC, some 70% of the population is one at least one form of welfare.