Posted on 05/27/2020 1:57:28 PM PDT by SJackson
s New York City suffers an economic crisis on top of the coronavirus pandemic, some are looking back with regrets at the left-wing campaign that forced Amazon to scupper a plan to bring tens of thousands of jobs to the area – arguing this project could have helped the Big Apple weather the storm.
“At this time when coronavirus is ravaging incomes across New York, wouldn’t it be nice if the city and state at least knew that one of the world’s largest companies, one of the rare concerns positioned to thrive through the crisis, had made a long-term commitment to locate between 25,000 and 40,000 high-paying jobs here?” an editorial in the New York Daily News said.
The criticism from the local paper this month comes amid estimates from the city’s Independent Budget Office that New York City could lose 475,000 jobs by next March and see a $9.7 billion decrease in tax revenue over the next two years, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Amazon had planned to build a second NYC headquarters in Long Island City in Queens, but community activists and left-wing lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., and state senators rallied to block the move in 2019. In particular, they had zeroed in on the estimated $2.5 billion in incentives that Amazon would receive in order to tempt them to the area.
"Now what I DON’T want is for our public funds to be funding freebie helipads for Amazon + robber baron billionaires," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time, "all while NYCHA and public schools go underfunded & mom+pops get nowhere near that kind of a break."
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Why doesn’t New York just Tax Unemployment Benefits and Welfare Benefits to make up for the loss, there are plenty of New People to TAX in these programs.
Not only that but Amazon is likely to DOUBLE its present size over the next year or two. Scared old ladies who didn’t even know what an internet was are going to be staying locked inside and ordering everything to their house from Amazon from denture cleaners to yarn supplies.
I just heard that Amazon is building a new distribution center in Syracuse, New York It should be completed by the end of 2021.
People in New York State do have to pay taxes on their unemployment earnings.
I believe AOC and the Muslim racist brother-f#cking Somalian will lose their seats come November.
Yeah, butt . . . she has a koledge duhgree in ekanomiks . . . do you?
I believe they will lose also!! GOOD RIDDENS!!!
someone smells defeat ROTFLMAO
Did the linked story point out the stunning stupidity of AOC describing tax relief as if it were cash payments to Amazon? But of course her idiot fawning supporters think like that. Journalists are clueless as well.
“ Yeah ! Now since we ran Amazon out of town we have all kinds of extra money to spend that we almost gave them in tax relief. let’s see. Where do we want to spend that now!”
Try again.
To who? No GOP candidates stand a chance, I think AOC's district Repub. candidate just dropped out. It will have to come from the left. I would love this to be correct, but I have my doubts being these two POS are entrenched in districts with a lots of lovers for POS.
As Hank Thompson might say: All those New Yorkers moving South might tip the country over.
i think so too
I’m willing to bet after they “won” They immediately begin crying about a food desert.They immediately began crying about a food desert.
Oh no, How awful. I feel so sorry for those people. Oh way, they grow we voted for her in overwhelming numbers, they get to suffer the government they voted for.
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