San Juan mayor on GOP tax bill: "This would be a much more devastating blow to our economy than Irma and Maria put together." pic.twitter.com/iVQFsaHkWR
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) November 29, 2017
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Tuesday said the tax legislation Republicans are pushing in Congress will have worse consequences for Puerto Rico than the hurricanes that hit the island earlier this year.
“This would be a much more devastating blow to our economy than Irma and Maria put together,” Cruz said on “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
Cruz noted that the tax proposal includes a 20 percent excise tax on goods imported from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States. That provision, she said, would destroy the island’s economy.
“[Our economy] is crippled already, this would obliterate it,” she said.
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