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Stuff it, Jeffy.
Your propaganda rag and your Silicon Valley brethren who love censorship are largely responsible for turning this country leftwards.
Welcome to the world you helped to create. I hope you find living in it to totally suck.
A rational person would realize that if it takes a $3.5 billion tax abatement to attract all that investment, jobs and construction, then your high tax rates and byzantine regulations are stifling and preventing all sorts of productive investment. Of course the “progressive socialists” are incapable of this insight, so the decline and poverty in NYC will only worsen.
Well just imagine all those foolish people who were fighting for any piece of property to buy surrounding this new Amazon HQ and paying top dollar to get it...Bankruptcy will be order of the day soon for these fools..Teach them not to trust Leftists..
“We are thrilled. This shows that even in today’s age, with corporations like Amazon amassing such incredible political power, people standing up together for our neighborhoods and neighbors can actually win.”
Some would consider 25,000 jobs a win.
Nothing dumber than a dumb New Yorker. Idiots cost themselves 25K jobs and untold billions in tax revenues. Dumb and dumber.
I hate this kind of tax deal anyway.
But I remember how proud the SJWs out there in Brooklyn and Queens were years ago when they similarly defeated Walmart’s attempt to locate a store there.
God forbid the poor and working class in the City have access to the same cheap products from China that the rest of the country was loading up on!
I LOVE watching Zillionaire Capitalist Leftists and Leftist pol’s cannibalize each other! If their Zombie Brainwashed masses were actually functioning thinking individuals, it would be readily apparent to them. Unfortunately, our enemy was shrewd enough to understand the the initial brainwashing would insulate them from such outrageous displays of hippocracy such as this. We celebrate, but our enemy remains unharmed and unfazed.
It was a bad idea. It’s on Long Island, in an area where infrastructure, density, and traffic are already out of hand. They’d get a tax break and the town it’s in would get revenue. What about surrounding towns that would suffer the impact, with no tax benefits? Is that really a sensible place to put it?
NY’s stupid progressives are upset they didn’t have the chance to hand $3 billion of taxpayer money to Jeff Bezos
I just love these sort of circular firing squads - the ultra liberal amazon founder making a deal with the also ultra-liberal mayor and ultra-liberal gov of new york, then getting smacked down by another set of ultra-liberal democrats - this stuff is really fun to watch....how can republicans not really enjoy this freak show?
I for one was really, really surprised they picked NYC in the first place - I had my money of virginia and texas, so I was at least 1/2 right.
Arlington, Virginia is just as liberal in its voting; but it has a much better business climate, so not nearly as much was need to induce Amazon to locate there.
The nitwit Bezos confronted the Frankenstein monster he created and lost. Boo-hoo.
Incidentally, always shop around before buying from Amazon because you are likely to find the item for less money on other websites. The cut Amazon demands on various products can add 35% or more onto your purchase price.
Reap what you sow.
You know, repercussions and all that.
All actions meet with opposite reactions.
Businesses and socialism cannot coexist.
Trying to appease those who oppose you, comes back to bite hard.
Did you learn your lessons, Bezos? I doubt it. You are stupidly committed liberal.
“The news that Amazon picked Queens as one of its coveted second headquarters in exchange for nearly $3 billion in tax subsidies broke the day before the 2018 midterm elections, and negative reactions from a newly energized left wing grew quickly in New York City.”
She proudly saved NY State $24 billion in tax revenue and got rid of 25,000 underpaid slave labor jobs.
She then went on to enumerate how she could more wisely spend the $3 billion ...
Even an airhead might be smarter ...
Yep - ironic that socialism, which requires capitalism in order to pretend to ‘work” also does its best to stifle capitalism...
Notice how AOC is now a raging nativist when it comes to jobs in her district?
Amazon pulled out after a meeting with city and state officials where they were “asked” to join in with all the local liberal causes. In other words, a shakedown.