What are the benefits of being a citizen of the U.S. Virgin Islands as opposed to U.S. citizen and negitives.?
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There are no benefits of being a U. S. citizen if you live in the Virgin Islands. You got no representation to Congress that matters, only one delegate in the House of Representatives that cannot vote for legislation that might affect the Virgin Islands. This delegate can propose legislation, but since it has nothing to trade (a vote in the House), it typically depends on the goodwill and fair play of other representatives. Since the U. S. Virgin Islands have no representation in the Senate, whatever you propose has no champion on that chamber, so your legislation can die very easily, since nobody cares if it only affects a territory that has no real power. You do not get to vote for President, even though the President is the Head of State of the territory, since it is a U. S. possesion. Now, if you move to the U.S. mainland, you get all the rights and duties of a full citizen, but for that you have to move out of the place that you call home. All other territories, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and Washington D. C. are in the same boat, one lonely delegate in Congress, no representation in the Senate. At least Washington, D. C. gets to vote for President and the recent legislation enhanced the power of its delegate, although it gave Utah one more representative, the GOP wanted to counterbalance the extra democratic vote in the House by giving Utah an extra congressperson.
Being a citizen you get all the freedoms and protections but you are subject also to the laws and regulations like income tax
Being a citizen you get all the freedoms and protections but you are subject also deal with discrimination,racism
and bad policy if you have a foreign accent you death
They are both US citizens whats your point ?
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