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Sounds like the USVI government is facing a serious fiscal challenge:

After Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis, Worries Shift to Virgin Islands

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Roughly the same as the National Debt for the US.

$20T/400M = $50,000

$6.5B/100K = $65,000

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USVI heading down the crapper soon. Might be easier to give them back to Denmark.


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Except the population of the USA is 321 million, not 400.

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I'm sure Twanger estimated the illegal and refugees in the 400 figure.

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Except the population of the USA is 321 million, not 400.


VI: $6.5B / 100K = $65,000
2013 GDP / person= $36,000

US: $20T / 320M = $62,500
2013 GDP / person= $52,500

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I know this will come as a shock, but the island has a spending problem not a revenue problem.

The per person revenue from local and state taxes is $5,000 per person average in the United States. This year the island will take in 900 million dollars. That comes to $9,000 per person.

I haven't visited yet. My trip is scheduled for later this year. Given all that money, I imagine the streets are lined in gold.

If not gold streets, will I see massive infrastructure like New York City or Washington DC or Los Angeles?

If not, where has all the money gone? Plus there seems to be a lot of borrowing going on.


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