Posted on 02/18/2019 9:55:21 AM PST by ETL
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared victory when Amazon announced Thursday that it would not build a second headquarters (known as HQ2) in Queens, New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it a “lost economic opportunity” and blamed “a small group [of] politicians [who] put their own narrow political interests above their community.”
The dispute between the two Democrats lays bare a divide over the plan to offer $2.8 billion in tax breaks for Amazon to establish a major presence in New York City.
On one side, old hands like Cuomo; on the other, the newly insurgent, left-leaning wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
“Today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers and their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. The new development would have been in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, near Ocasio-Cortez’s district.
The outspoken freshman Congresswoman was a critic of the deal Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio had brokered with Amazon.
Cuomo and other supporters of the project said that Amazon would have brought more than enough investment to the city to justify the tax breaks, and would have established New York as a tech hub to rival other hubs like San Francisco.
Additionally, he said, HQ2 would have brought “at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs for our state and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality-of-life improvements.”
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Cortez The Job Killer
Not to worry .. that 'Green New Steal' will pay 'em anyway !
This train of thought could go mainstream. Don’t laugh. 2 years to prepare. One election day to refute. Even if they’re put in their place both sides will claim victory. We need more crying on their side and Trump is the only one who can do it.
Economics for Dummies
I wonder how many hours that idiot spent watching herself in the mirror, practicing that crazy eye- horse tooth smile of hers
She needs to be placed in the funny farm meds can’t help her.
TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMP!!!!!!!!
And let’s not forget our economic multipliers.
I don’t know the details of the math, but, creating 25,000 new jobs at Amazon in New York, would have led to the creation of thousands of new jobs in service businesses.
Economics major Ocasio-Cortez, again shows her ignorance of economics, when she said that now that Amazon won’t be getting $3 billion in tax abatements, now we can use that money to rebuild the subway, etc. Paraphrasing what she said.
She clearly doesn’t understand that the tax abatements are not sitting in the bank, waiting to be spent on rebuilding the subway, if only we don’t give the benefit to Amazon.
Then again, for having an econ. degree, she doesn’t even know how the unemployment rate is calculated. So there you go.
I will argue that she is the best thing for our side since donald trump
She is garnering maximum media coverage as she divides the democrat party
She could eat corn on the cob thru a picket fence with those choppers.
“The outspoken freshman Congresswoman...”
Translation: loud mouthed obnoxious pain in the ass. Wear the jacket New York.
This little idiot is going to cost the dummies big time!!!
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AOC’’s main objecton to Amazon’s deal with New York was the the 3 billion dollars in promised tax-cuts could have been put to other uses.
This reveals a great deal about the way socialists think. A tax cut isn’t a corporation’s money that it gets to keep, it’s the government’s money that has been withheld from its rightful owner.
Remember when Bernie Sanders accused Republicans of “looting the treasury” with their tax cuts? It’s not your money folks, it’s the governments and maybe they’ll let you keep some.
I look forward to hearing about what Alexendria does with that 3 billion dollars she retrieved from those greedy Amazon folks.
Surely this moron is diagnosable.
Looks dangerous, like someone you don’t want to meet in a dark alley.
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