Chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico is a taxpayer bailout

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Author(s) Mike Watson
Source Richmond Times-Dispatch
Date July 11, 2015
URL http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/article_66ddd109-2e30-5610-a060-49b0ebb0738e.html
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Quotes-start.png If the Caribbean commonwealth’s leaders have their way, the net result would have U.S. taxpayers underwriting a bailout — and U.S. seniors and working Americans being forced to absorb financial losses for problems they had no part in creating. With $18 trillion in national debt and continued unfettered federal spending in Washington, don’t we have plenty of financial problems of our own? Quotes-end.png


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