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.
“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.
Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, not California.
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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.
Amazon is a Washington company. Their real issue isn’t taxes - which you can evade entirely with complicated international structures - it’s that trying to hire more employees in WA or CA is too expensive because of the housing shortage causing huge COLs. That’s why they were moving to Long Island city - it’s relatively cheap now - and it’s why locals opposed it - it would have made tents and home ownership unaffordable to those that aren’t current owners.