Never underestimate politicians’ ability to come up with creative schemes to reach deeper into taxpayers’ pockets.
Since Puerto Rico was hit by back-to-back hurricanes in 2017—almost a decade ago—U.S. taxpayers have contributed over $20 billion in federal recovery funding. Now, local politicians are weaponizing the legal system to grab even more of your hard-earned tax dollars.
Under the guise of collecting unpaid construction taxes, local municipal governments are attempting to tax Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reconstruction projects. Federal contractors who rebuilt the island’s infrastructure on behalf of taxpayers are now being hit with frivolous lawsuits that serve the interests of bureaucratic elites at the expense of the territory’s residents.
Read the full story here.