'Do something!' Rep. Stacey Plaskett furious as she's told she can't vote for speaker

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9. Only partly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico

Unless you derive earned income from the US government, no federal income taxes. You pay payroll taxes but you also get social security and medicaid/medicare benefits. Wiki notes that they pay more in federal income taxes than 6 states (the source for that is 2020, so that's probably for year 2018, maybe 2019) but not that PR currently has more than 3x the population of all but one of those states. (Don't know the stats for 2018/19 for population.)

Still, they do have a voice, just not a vote. However, they could apply to become states (with some kind of adjustment; we think it's unjust for a Wyoming resident to have a great impact per vote than somebody from California; giving the VI and WY each just 1 representative would be expected, but the VI has 1/12th the population of WY.)