Posted on 02/16/2019 1:15:55 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
No, she’s an idiot. She’s not right about anything.
Making a mistake and being right, does not merit credit.
Yes, sure, reducing taxes across the board would increase revenues and proliferation of business.
We’re all in favor of that. I still say giving a tax incentive to get them to locate to your area, is a great thing to do.
Wouldn’t you be happy to get 90% of a pie than no pie at all?
She just cancelled the whole pie, and is just thrilled at her own brilliance, as if...
NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard
Any time a large business wants to move it, it’s a real positive. At the same time, you’ve just set yourself up for a massive negative too, if 12 years later they decide to move out.
If you manage the increased tax receipts correctly, you can plan for a loss of the revenue.
The problem these days is that nobody plans long-term. “Oh we’ve got this new money, well we should set up a long range project because we’ll always have this money coming in.” Well, actually no you won’t. At some point it will end.
Here in California, every time the economy heats up, the state comes up with great new ways to spend he increased income. They set up long range expenses, and then when the economy cools off, they are habitually head over heals.
It’s infuriating, because of course they have mired themselves into one expensive Leftist cause or another, and then we have to cut police, fire, libraries, hospitals... you name it because they can’t possibly lower the socialist programs.
You know all this, but it angers me and I needed to vent.
So when do these socialist ever do anything constructive ? Everything is destructive. It must be their nature.
Who knows! They both have crazy eyes.
My take was all those who agree with her never badly wanted a job.
I have no skin in the game over Amazon's decision I live on the other coast. But generally speaking I am against this kind of subsidy and especially for a company like Amazon and in a city like New York. If they cannot attract businesses based on their large base of people to serve and labor to draw from then they have other problems to deal with. I see the Amazon deal as something more symbolic - losing the deal exposes NYC and NYS as a difficult place; winning it would have probably attracted new investment in services and satellite businesses serving Amazon.
I don't know the details of the subsidy exactly but $3 billion upfront for $400 million a year starting in 2023 may not be such a great deal. I have read that 50% of New York City tax revenue comes from 1% of the residents. If true, then perhaps the civic leaders are afraid losing such a deal has exposed their charade. They cannot keep going if they are that far out of balance, they will end up having to kowtow to all the wealthy people just to keep them from moving away. Let's see if/how the SALT deduction changes have an effect.
IL douchbag nixed fracking upstate and destroyed 20,000 upstate!
I think Occasional Cortex has signed her own political death warrant with the Amazon debacle. She makes new enemies every day, and she’s already made MANY enemies in New York, almost all of whom are Rats.
She will soon learn she’s not invincible.
I think Occasional Cortex has signed her own political death warrant with the Amazon debacle. She makes new enemies every day, and she’s already made MANY enemies in New York, almost all of whom are Rats.
She will soon learn she’s not invincible.
No fracking in New York. Let them frack in Pennsylvania. It has ruined the state and contaminated the water.
So New Yorkers in Long Island City, Why would continue to vote for Democrats who screw you at every turn???
So sit down, shut up, get with her Marxist POGROM, put on your plastic smiley face and "cooperate"! Or you will force us to send you, and your entire extended family to the new GULAGS, opps, I meant to say "reeducational facilities", that AO COMMUNIST is planning to build for those who don't see how great, and glorious comrade AO COMMUNIST and her "Five-year plan", opps, I mean "Green New Deal" is.
Agreed!! I lived in Detroit for 2 years (81-83) and it was already going down. AND of course the people that lived there continued to elect the same criminals into office. It starts on the local level and then spreads to the national elections. Same people continue to drink the koolaid. It was at that time when I moved to a large city (Detroit) that I left the democratic party and switched to repub. Now unfortunately we have a uniparty.
the funny part is the ones who bought up all the housing near there on spec are now stuck with it...
“You get what you vote for.”
Actually the representative for the district into which Amazon was moving (Carolyn Maloney) supported it, and is ranting against those who opposed it (and cost her district a good deal). Voters in that district voted correctly; their Congressional representative, mayor, and governor all supported the Amazon move.
NJ is heading down the same path as Detroit, in the sense that the best and brightest are leaving so voting becomes lopsidedly leftist.
Both are prime indications of why the Founding Fathers restricted voting to taxpayers; they foresaw this over 225 years ago.
Sorry to hear that. I visited Atlantic City for a couple of days in the 70’s. Had a lot of fun. And yes our forefathers had a lot of wisdom drawing up the constitution. Some people want to see a convention of states. I understand the motive on the conservative side but can we really trust our government now and believe they wouldn’t hijack the process? We would all be living out our lives in gulags.
So you and AOC are simpatico? LOL!
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