Posted on 02/14/2019 9:12:13 AM PST by SMGFan
Amazon said Thursday it will not move forward with plans to build a headquarters in New York after rising opposition from local politicians.
The company said it will not reopen the search process "at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada."
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After all, who wants all those pesky jobs and the accompanying economic development?
Not moving to the tax capitol of the world? Ha ha....
Cue the Simpson’s Nelson ‘Ha Ha!’ GIF file
Crap, they’re probably coming to Texas now, just what we don’t need....more liberals.
Ocasio-Cortez will be happy.
they weren’t wanted.
“The proposal ran into opposition from local politicians who opposed the $2.8-billion in incentives promised to Amazon in a deal secretly negotiated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.”
This is so very unfair! How is Mayor de Blasio going to fund his latest socialist schemes now? Maybe he should just sue Amazon for breach of promise.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
But the locals didn’t want the increase in property taxes. /sarc
F56K New York.....HA!
"...[Amazon employment of approximately 5000 jobs at $150,000 per]..."
Yep and it couldn’t happen to a better bunch of socialist dogs!
They were saying that property valuations had already decreased because there was speculation amazon was pulling out. LOL
Wasn’t NY going to subsidize the hell out of this headquarters?
That stat was on Varney, Fox Business News, this AM.
Bezos is too late with his crony-capitalist, corporate welfare scheme.
5 years ago, Elon Musk already duped Gov. Cuomo and NY State into building him a $750 million solar-panel factory which, of course, now that it is running, is at only 10% of the promised employment, using second-hand equipment, has none of the technology promised - and is a total white elephant.
New York was giving Amazon more than $1.8 billion in tax incentives for those 5,000 jobs.
AOC is a babbling idiot most of the time, but on this issue she looks like a MENSA member -- even compared to some people here on FR. LOL.
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