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how is hawaii doing these days anyway? and like, what makes hawaii not in terrible crisis when ostensibly it's much the same as puerto rico except anything shipped there has to go way farther out? cause yeah puerto rico's hosed hardcore and the slash to minimum wage sounds more likely to just drive away everyone else who is working. i guess we get to see once and for all if the recurring republican myth of 'our economy would be in so much better shape if we just abolished the minimum wage and made it a nightmare for workers to get paid, at all!' can continue to perpetuate
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Gyra_Solune posted:how is hawaii doing these days anyway? and like, what makes hawaii not in terrible crisis when ostensibly it's much the same as puerto rico except anything shipped there has to go way farther out? Hawaii is basically kept afloat by tourism and real estate, so while its economy isn't really sound in the long term (real estate isn't a real industry, lol), it's not a failed state or anything like that.
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so how would this be different if puerto rico was a state? ive heard something about the way they got the debt, and something about how they can get out of it, would be different but i am ignorant
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oystertoadfish posted:so how would this be different if puerto rico was a state? ive heard something about the way they got the debt, and something about how they can get out of it, would be different but i am ignorant If they were a state they couldn't do all the weird stuff that keeps their manufacturing competitive with the mainland and muggy force their economy to rely more on tourism for money
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