Posted on 02/18/2019 9:55:21 AM PST by ETL
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared victory when Amazon announced Thursday that it would not build a second headquarters (known as HQ2) in Queens, New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it a “lost economic opportunity” and blamed “a small group [of] politicians [who] put their own narrow political interests above their community.”
The dispute between the two Democrats lays bare a divide over the plan to offer $2.8 billion in tax breaks for Amazon to establish a major presence in New York City.
On one side, old hands like Cuomo; on the other, the newly insurgent, left-leaning wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
“Today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers and their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. The new development would have been in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, near Ocasio-Cortez’s district.
The outspoken freshman Congresswoman was a critic of the deal Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio had brokered with Amazon.
Cuomo and other supporters of the project said that Amazon would have brought more than enough investment to the city to justify the tax breaks, and would have established New York as a tech hub to rival other hubs like San Francisco.
Additionally, he said, HQ2 would have brought “at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs for our state and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality-of-life improvements.”
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The Old Guard and the New; from one blithering idiot to another.
Even worse, she's incapable of performing simple arithmetic.
She described the Amazon jobs as "scraps", when the average position would have paid $150,000 a year. For the folks in Rio Linda that's $75 an hour.
Excellent point.
Cuomo’s envelope he was to receive under that table is empty, 25000 jobs, who cares
AOC pays her interns $15,00. Is that her working definition of “good paying” job?
Wondered what her family tree look like thanks.
Wondered what her family tree look like thanks.
Agree toon time has started media in utopia land.
How does Chris Cuomo report this, LOL
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