Should Puerto Rico Become the 51st State?

Mike talks with George Laws Garcia, a former acting director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Statehood Council.

Topics Mike and George Cover Include:

- how Puerto Ricans aresecond-class US citizens

- Puerto Rico and federal income taxes

- independence as opposed to statehood

- how Puerto Ricans feel about statehood

- US domestic political considerations

- what making Puerto Rico a state might cost

- short and medium-term prospects for statehood

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