Posted on 07/02/2019 11:55:09 AM PDT by central_va
In a series of tweets early Tuesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced that he has ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to withdraw all financial incentive dollars to encourage Nike to add a manufacturing plant in the Valley.
Nike has planned a massive shoe manufacturing plant in Goodyear, with an initial investment of $184.5 million. The plant would create over 500 full-time jobs.
An agricultural service economy is not going to beat China in the long term. But the GOP only thinks in quarters.
Ok where are the import tariffs on Nike shoes? The GOP talks out of both sides of its mealy mouth. Nationalists are getting tired of GOP antics.
If the Arizona Commerce Authority taketh away, which is what the excerpt says they are capable of doing, then it is the Arizona Commerce Authority that must be the ones who giveth.
Unless the tax code in Arizona has been entrusted to the Arizona Commerce Authority and they are making a decision that will affect companies beyond Nike, and the original decision did as well, then this is not a tax cut.
Equal protection. The same taxes on all businesses as far as reasonably possible.
Just think of him as “AOC lite”.
Sorry, I cannot agree with you.
We don’t need our jobs and our shoes to come from companies that hate
everything we stand for.
Eject the company from the country, and put a 25% tariff on their products.
We can make our own d*mn shoes.
It was a tax cut.
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The AOC disease has infected Free Republic
While I am second to none in my admiration for the Army of Northern Virginia, I do think that this pursuit of cheap yankee shoes at any cost is something you ought to think about, however little the flag may mean to you.
The last time Virginians got too involved with yankee shoes, it did not end well.
The excerpt you posted says “financial incentive dollars” which is a really funny way to spell tax cut.
If the excerpt you posted is misleading, please ask the mods to yank your story so that you may try again.
Hands in your pockets first and foremost. Corporate cronyism. . Then they insult the country’s taxpayers.
How many billions in taxpayer dollars have they already taken?
Only the small biz owners work from their pocketbook first.
Let them go work in colin’s overpriced backyard.
This.
Sorry, I cannot agree with you.
We don’t need our jobs and our shoes to come from companies that hate
everything we stand for.
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Bingo.
The loss of 500 potential jobs is FAR less important than teaching these spineless, politically correct assholes a lesson.
The left, for WAY too long, has gotten EVERYTHING they want and nearly destroyed our country because their implied threat of calling someone a racist or worse just for NOT being a leftist WORKS. That’s why one meaningless dickhead anti-American ex-football played can cost the company a ton of money because he demands that everyone be as unpatriotic and STUPID as he is. Screw him. Screw that.
Totally with Governor Ducey on this one. As Rush said today: “Bravo!”.
“We don’t need our jobs and our shoes to come from companies that hate
everything we stand for.”
Amen!
And always remind the proggies: Nike was the cause. The Governor’s response was the effect.
There ARE some cojones in AZ!
I agree.
It’s a separate issue, but they should never have offered financial incentives/tax breaks to the company. I guess it is legal because states and cities do it all the time but personally think it violates a number of principles, probably also unconstitutional, and I imagine this will lead to where companies will threaten to move or close their facilities unless the state/city gives them a break.
What is 500 jobs worth to the state? If they are willing to pay to get 500 new jobs how much will the pay to stop 500 jobs from leaving? I understand the states are competing, but there’s a perversion in how the richest highly profitable companies are the ones being offered tax incentives. The little person who has to build a business from scratch using smarts, sweat, blood, borrowed money etc gets pays full freight the whole way and gets little consideration - indeed they get demonized by politicians for “not paying their fair share” while at the same time Amazon and Nike and GM and Boeing (and many others) are being given tax breaks! NYC Mayor “the money is in the wrong hands” DeBlasio is exposed as a total hypocrite - or maybe he thinks the money that is in the wrong hands should go to the company with one of the highest market caps in the world.
Manufacturing creates wealth. Other “business” activities just transfer wealth.
ALL.TAX.CUTS.ARE.GOOD.
This is about as intelligent as it comes
As always, you are on the wrong side of the issue.
Nike is no longer an American company. Since Air Jordan, Nike is an African company. The Governor saw through the nike smoke and mirrors and chose not to support the Africanization of America.
Nike can go to California or Washington where Africanization and America hate is appreciated
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