Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Puerto Ricans do support statehood because they like the political symbolism of being American citizens, Diminguez said...
...smaller, more influential group supports statehood because it would "close off the dangers of drastic social change" such as communism, he added...
Most Puerto Ricans are apprehensive about statehood because they fear steep federal taxes, and are also afraid that mainland U.S corporations will leave the island, Felix M. Torres '79, a son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday. The corporations may leave because of a loss of tax incentives and a loss of cheap labor due to an imposition of minimum wage laws, Torres added...
Puerto Rican statehood would help the growing Puerto Rican upper class and hurt U.S. corporations, Cortiella said...
...Statehood "wouldn't make a big economic difference" he added, "except to be a rationalization of the labor markets in a capitalist sense...