Alexandria Cortez is a GENIUS

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

She sure showed Amazon. Thanks to her bitching and complaining, Amazon isn't building their second headquarters in New York.

25,000 jobs, with an average annual salary of $150,000. Works out to $3.75B in taxable income flowing into that area, every year. Money that will be taxed, money that will be spent, money that will be used to shop and buy lunch in the area where te office would have been.

The fact is, Amazon doesn't need tax subsidies. And I don't like corporate welfare, I don't like governments picking winners and losers in the business world. But the other fact is, this is how the world works. Amazon would be stupid not to seek the best deal it can get.

So because Cortez is so brilliant and so principled, this part of New York misses out on annual taxable revenue of 3.75B being pumped into the local economy. At a time when the governor just bemoaned the states deficits (which he blamed on Trump).

Where does she suppose the money comes from, to pay for things like the Green New Deal?

Yes, she sure showed Amazon!

Maybe you could convince them to go to Connecticut. Life seems to be purely transactional in your eyes.
Technology was not a great deal for people who lived in Seattle who can no longer afford to live there.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Maybe you could convince them to go to Connecticut. Life seems to be purely transactional in your eyes.
Technology was not a great deal for people who lived in Seattle who can no longer afford to live there.
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If they even CONSIDERED CT, I would sell all my Amazon stock,

"Technology was not a great deal for people who lived in Seattle who can no longer afford to live there"

So why did so many areas kill themselves to put in a bid to get this Amazon office?

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

If they even CONSIDERED CT, I would sell all my Amazon stock,

"Technology was not a great deal for people who lived in Seattle who can no longer afford to live there"

So why did so many areas kill themselves to put in a bid to get this Amazon office?

Remember when you claimed they where only looking at conservative areas - and yet they ended up in VA and NY.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Remember when you claimed they where only looking at conservative areas - and yet they ended up in VA and NY.

No I don't recall that, but if I did, I was totally wrong, at least temporarily. NYC is unique in terms of attracting business, obviously.

VA isn't die-hard liberal.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Remember when you claimed they where only looking at conservative areas - and yet they ended up in VA and NY.

you conveniently left out Nashville, Nashville was the other big winner. amazon originally picked a conservative place, a middle of the road place, and a liberal place.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

you conveniently left out Nashville, Nashville was the other big winner. amazon originally picked a conservative place, a middle of the road place, and a liberal place.
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Nashville got the smallest amount by far.
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