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...arguments pro and con are not easily grasped by most Americans, who do not quite understand what it feels like to be a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico. While living on the mainland, both Calderon and Colon could vote in federal elections. They lost that right by going home; the island elects one delegate to the House of Representatives, who can vote only in committee. Moving back also means a lower level of federal benefits. But there are some advantages. While in the States, the two men had to pay federal income tax; on the island they pay none...
...their Puerto Rican subsidiaries. Now worth about $3.4 billion a year, this huge tax break was intended to create industry and jobs. To the statehooders, both the commonwealth and its chief economic prop, Section 936, are obsolete because they no longer produce much economic growth. Rossello argues that Puerto Rico can go forward only with "full participation, with all the rights, all the privileges but also all the responsibilities" of statehood. While he makes the transition sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto Rico's soul and destruction of its economy. They also argue that the vote is moot...
...firm--which charges $250 per hour plus expenses--lists among its past clients the McDonnell Douglas Corp., the Johnson Controls Corp., and the governments of both Puerto Rico and Turkey...
Paniagua received his doctorate in philosophy from Boston University in 1991. He was a lecturer in the subject at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, during the past academic year. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras...
Breyer, who now serves as the Chief Judge for the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Puerto Rico, is on a short list of President Clinton's potential appointees for the post...