In a response to US President Donald Trump’s latest threat to seize control of Greenland, the leaders of the Danish autonomous region’s five main political parties issued a joint statement late Friday declaring the future of the island should be decided by Greenlanders.
Who said they would even be “Americans”?
Ask the people of Venezuela: are they US citizens now?
Greenland will be just another poor banana republic. Under the thumb of Usa, and some stupid, corrupt governor.
I think a better group to ask would be Puerto Ricans. They are US citizens, but as far as I’m aware (not an American myself), being a citizen without any representation or voting rights means they get fucked over a lot.
Difference between Venezuela and Greenland is that for Venezuela, they are openly saying they want regime change and compliance, not annexation. For Greenland they’re explicitly calling for annexation.
Hypothetically, let’s say Denmark backs down and gives up Greenland (not gonna happen, but let’s assume). No way are the republicans going to give them senators and congresspeople, they’d immediately be opposed to the Republicans.
PR also doesn’t want to pay federal taxes.
A US Citizen in PR cannot vote. A US Citizen resident in a foreign country can.
This is regardless of where you are born, but in which US territory you last resided (eg proper state, Puerto Rico, etc)
If taxes weren’t one of your founding myths I would ask what’s the deal with not paying taxes, but yeah…
I mean if you’re not given voting rights or representation, why would you want to pay taxes?
They’ve often (in the 90s) voted against statehood because they’re currently exempt from federal personal income tax. I guess my info is a bit dated. More recently they’ve (non-binding) voted about 56% for statehood.
It’s not like the taxes in the U.S. actually go to anything useful though. You don’t have universal healthcare, childcare isn’t subsidised, neither is education, hell children can get into debt over school lunches, because they’re not provided either. There’s no public transport to speak of, the roads are absolutely dismal in places, the State doesn’t provide options for necessary infrastructure services.
I wouldn’t want to pay taxes in the U.S., it just seems to seep into private pockets. My work already does that, why should I let some rich cunts double dip?
USAid was pretty good. And our roads are pretty reasonable, mostly.
Where federal taxes are spent was fairly reasonable until this year. Could, of course, always be better. Obviously too much went to the military and the MIC.