We’re also not talking about taxes just for residency. The federal government doesn’t collect property taxes. I’m just trying to say there is some effort to not burden them unduly with taxes. Do I think they should become a state: yes; barring that do I think they should they be excluded from entitlements: no. The issue of statehood is complicated. Historically referendums in Puerto Rico have failed. At least some are happy with the status quo

There is an attempt to conform to the taxation/representation issue, but it’s never going to be 100%. Non-citizens and foreign entities are going to be subject to certain taxes within the US as well. At a simple level, there’s no way avoid sales taxes. People have to pay sales tax in states they can’t vote in either

That’s not true. There are technically different classifications. For example, fees are specifically not taxes.

Yes.

It also feels like it’s something different because they aren’t supposed to go into the general fund, but advance payment for specific benefits

It also feels like it’s something different because they aren’t supposed to go into the general fund, but advance payment for specific benefits

It also feels like it’s something different because they aren’t supposed to go into the general fund, but advance payment for specific benefits

Because they don’t tax them. Puerto Rico doesn’t pay federal taxes

That’s why they don’t pay federal taxes

Easy, they don’t pay federal taxes

You need to look up the McDonald’s coffee case. The woman got third degree burns and needed skin grafts. She only sued to have her medical bills covered. The judge raised the amount because McDonald’s had been warned about their coffee temperature several times.

It also shows what the most identifiable parts of their names are Trump/Kamala vs. Donald/Harris

I think MASH put it in popular culture a long time earlier

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan and up by Buffalo, NY get some serious snow

I wasn’t alone

I think it’s more divided by where it gets cold. Russia, Norway, Sweden… are also big on hockey. Even in the US, it’s kind of regional. The Upper Midwest and New England are crazy for hockey. In the winter, rinks pop up here and there in backyards

I said from the beginning it was a dissonance to me.

I get that people can become passionate about anything, but for me, hockey is ice hockey. Field hockey was something we played in middle school P.E.

I’m guessing the end was splintered, smashed real good

The hardest thing for me to understand here is that we’re talking about field hockey