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That would be fine, but it would be a hard transition. PR holds a lot of public debt and is almost entirely reliant on federal funding for healthcare, education, infrastructure, and disaster relief. If it was made an independent nation today it would be disastrous for almost everyone on the island. Becoming a self-sufficient polity doesn't require independent nationhood first. It would seem the first step would be to become self-reliant as a nation, and then seek independent nationhood after that has been achieved, or at least until the groundwork is established. 25% of PR's GDP right now is pure federal funding given by the US government. That size of a blow to the economy of PR would be horribly awful for the people.