so yeah, Why is Puerto Rico important to the United States? It's not a really big trading partner either. Puerto Ricans go to the US, but why is it so important for the US?|||Congress passed a bill a few weeks ago to let Puerto Rico become a state. This would give the Dems more electoral votes. Apparently, Puerto Rico has voted on this three times and they voted "no" every time. They realized they would be subject to all taxes if they were a state.|||Well, why is Idaho important to the US? Why is Maine important to the US?|||Have you seen the women?|||The Democrats know if they don't import votes they will lose. The same reason illegals are important to them.|||Puerto Rico is the US, dude.|||Old relic of the colonial period.|||The most important reason is for strategic military location.|||Bacardi !!|||Lisa is dead on. I don't know of Democrat votes, but she's not joking about taxes. Puerto Rico IS an "Americas Territory", but as she said. I didn't know they voted on it several times but the main thing was they didn't want the taxes. I think that was around 2005 or so. If they became a state, it would probably give us more trade route advantages.|||So Erik Estrada could ride a motorcycle on Chips.

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