Puerto Rico should become a state

My arguments would refute yours. If I have space I will refute:C1: ALLOWING THEM IN WOULD LEAD TO ECONOMIC DETRIMENT Puerto rico has high unemployment and allowing them it would increase the deficit through wellfare cost. [1]The puerto rican delegation would be twice the size of west vigrginia so they would have leverage to increase cost towards them, increasing costs further. [1]Their income per capita is 8,509$, thats much less then the american average, allowing them in would increase poverty rates. If allowed to be a state they would have the 25th biggest state via population, also that would lead to more social security costs, increasing deficits. Money spent on puerto rico is money that cannot be spent in other areas i.e medicare and medicade and other programs that help the other 50 states. We cannot afford a 51st state. [2]C2: LanguageTheir language is english AND spanish. Many people in PR (puerto rico) do not know english and the only official language of america is english. This is a fundamental problem. [3]Only 20% of PR's population speak english fluently [3]the language used in PR houses is spanish 95% of the time [3]C3: PoliticsPeople might like this argument (if your democrat) but it's the principle of the thing:Pr would have at least 5 members to congress and PR is predomonatly liberal. [4]But a PR commonwealth rep dissagrees (so this is a benifit to republicans):78% are pro life, 91% oppose SSM, and 30% are evangelicals. They also supoort spending and tax cuts [4]So it may go either way, but it would without a doubt help someone, hurting swaying the other 50 states views. in my opinion it would be a republican benifit. C4: they are already considered americansThey are already US citizens that can travel in and out of all 50 states, except their wellfare programs are local not american federal. [5]So they are US citizens, but don't drain our already empty treasury. C5: the people of PR do not want it. 1950 PR vote-didn't pass [6]1967-fail1998-failrecent-you yourself said they denied it the fist time. Polls:In the last status plebiscite, in 1993, 48 percent of voters chose commonwealth status, 46 percent said they supported statehood and most of the rest favoured independence. [7]So most support independence, so be it. Refutations:"The people of Puerto Rico have been U.S. citizens for since 1917 yet, they are not represent in congress and cannot vote for president. They are effectively second-class citizens. If we are to preach democracy and fairness across the world we must be fair to all of our citizens."Sicne they aren't currenlty a state then they do not get either, they get noon voting reps that try to persuade congress. I don't know if that works but they have something. [8] they have 1. Your first argument isn't an argument it is just backround. It is just an I hope they vote state and other backround info. ==end==SOurces:http://englishfirst.org...;[1]http://www.nopuertoricostatehood.com...;[2]http://www.nationalreview.com...;[3]http://www.prfaa.com...;[4]http://www.washingtontimes.com...;[5]http://en.wikipedia.org...;[6]http://www.latinamericanstudies.org...;[7]http://www.house.gov...;[8]