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Amazon pulls out of plan to build New York City headquarters after backlash
Fox News ^ | February 14, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia

Posted on 02/14/2019 9:34:57 AM PST by Trump20162020

Amazon announced Thursday it was turning back on its plans to build its second headquarters in New York City, a company spokesman said in a statement. The move comes after backlash from lawmakers, notably Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who bemoaned the project.

"After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens," the Seattle-based Amazon said in the release.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: New York; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 2019; 3rdthread; amazon; bezos; dopeydems; hq2; jeffbezos; nevermind; nyc
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To: TigerClaws

The cunning Progs, Cuomo an De Blasio, lost big time.


21 posted on 02/14/2019 9:54:00 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: struggle

Seems like I read it was actually about 25,000 jobs.


22 posted on 02/14/2019 9:55:26 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Trump20162020

The libtards also vetoed Walmart from building a store in the city a few years ago. I guess government bennies are better than working for a living.


23 posted on 02/14/2019 9:56:15 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: dfwgator

Beat me to it.


24 posted on 02/14/2019 9:58:56 AM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: TigerClaws

They didn’t learn anything from the Staten Island Navy Port
Fiasco.


25 posted on 02/14/2019 9:59:07 AM PST by Woodman
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To: Ouderkirk

The most intelligent and insightful comment so far on this thread....by a looooooong shot.


26 posted on 02/14/2019 9:59:48 AM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: chaosagent

The people of Bronx will continue to vote against prosperity.


27 posted on 02/14/2019 10:02:31 AM PST by struggle
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To: Trump20162020

The WHOLE POINT of a second headquarter is to gradually relocate out of tax-happy California without being accused of fleeing and I guess they just now figured out that New York is just as tax-thirsty.

Next stop will be Virginia where they can import a bunch of Cali socialists who can keep the state from flipping red.


28 posted on 02/14/2019 10:16:21 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: irishjuggler

All money at the government level is not standardized according to a tangible production item (Gross Domestic Product). Rather, it is secondhand money provided by those who contribute to the GDP.


29 posted on 02/14/2019 10:20:52 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Trump20162020

Typical leftist. It’s like being in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, and shooting a hole in the bottom. “Just to keep it real”.


30 posted on 02/14/2019 10:29:55 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Trump20162020
de Blasio said: "Instead of working with the community, Amazon threw away that opportunity. We have the best talent in the world and every day we are growing a stronger and fairer economy for everyone. If Amazon can’t recognize what that’s worth, its competitors will.”

Which competitor Mr.dB? Sears and Roebuck?

31 posted on 02/14/2019 10:30:17 AM PST by ImpBill (Conservative little "l" libertarian)
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To: OrangeHoof

“The WHOLE POINT of a second headquarter is to gradually relocate out of tax-happy California without being accused of fleeing and I guess they just now figured out that New York is just as tax-thirsty”

Bezos and his team are leftist until it hurts the bottom line or their ability to manage how they seem fit. Amazon NYC was going to unionize ASAP and that was a big sticking point. There was a NYC council man on Cavutos Fox business show the other day and he said as much. “Amazon doesn’t share our NYC values” blah blah blah blah blah.


32 posted on 02/14/2019 10:31:16 AM PST by DAC21
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To: OrangeHoof

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, not California.


33 posted on 02/14/2019 10:32:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: struggle

25,000


34 posted on 02/14/2019 10:33:00 AM PST by firebrand
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To: OrangeHoof
relocate out of tax-happy California
maybe even out of Seattle

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Next stop will be Virginia
Amazon is already in Virginia, in Herndon, Ashburn, Chantilly, Sterling, Winchester, Springfield and probably other places. Just last fall they announced another 25,000 jobs in Arlington, VA for HQ2. A lot of those workers will choose to live in DC and ride the metro to work.
Virginia might turn red again if the voters remember the current dimocrat mess in Richmond on election day.

35 posted on 02/14/2019 10:35:22 AM PST by relee (Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Alberta's Child

Imagine how many rich socialists who had inside knowledge on Amazon HQ2, thus bought land in anticipation of that, and just got their ass handed to them. Glorious!


36 posted on 02/14/2019 10:37:13 AM PST by teevolt
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To: TigerClaws

Socialism would be to subsidize the company, which is what the plan was.

Gov’t “stimulus” benefits cronies only.


37 posted on 02/14/2019 10:38:43 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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To: irishjuggler

Real Capitalism doesn’t subsidize business.


38 posted on 02/14/2019 10:39:26 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Subsidizing business is anti-taxpayer, but pro-business.

How about we have politicians who are pro-market, instead of taking sides?


39 posted on 02/14/2019 10:40:44 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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To: ImpBill

So why not go through the proper channels, Kaiser, instead of having closed-door meetings? Plus most people just think the payoff was way too large out of our tax dollars.


40 posted on 02/14/2019 10:40:46 AM PST by firebrand
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