Even if Americans continued to relocate to the island in large numbers, it is unlikely that settlers would mobilize to make insula debitum a state of the union. On the one hand, the available tax breaks—or the “absolutely mind-blowing tax benefits to people who move to Puerto Rico from the mainland” (livinginpuertorico.com 2015), in the words of one enthusiastic promoter—would disappear. On the other hand, Puerto Rico’s governing elites have already accepted neoliberalism as their core ideology, with minimal if any resistance (Atiles-Osoria 2017). An example is the island’s governor Ricardo Rosselló, who favors privatization of fundamental services and has already begun the process of selling the island’s energy utility company (Aronoff 2018). The irony is that full representation in Congress and citizen participation in presidential elections would offer Puerto Ricans more avenues of participation, however compromised. But, ultimately, what the “millionaires” seek is profit, not parity.