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    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) outraged her right-wing critics earlier this year when she helped block Amazon from getting billions of dollars in public subsidies from New York City to move there. Now the company is moving there anyway, and taxpayers get to keep their money.

    Conservatives accused Ocasio-Cortez of killing 25,000 jobs by making sure the public did not have to s out billions of dollars to the trillion-dollar company, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. They warned that no company should be denied public funding because such an action would prevent companies from moving in. They accused her of interfering with free-market capitalism, which when you think about it, isn’t really free if the public has to pay a company to move in.

    But it turns out that all their gloom and doom warnings and accusations were wrong, because Amazon announced that it is coming to NYC anyway without the subsidies.

    Why?

    Because they can afford to do so without fleecing the public as most companies can do.

    According to the Wall Street Journal:

    The giant online retailer said it has signed a new lease for 335,000 square feet on the city’s west side in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood, where it will have more than 1,500 employees. Amazon is taking the space without any of the special tax credits and other inducements the company had been offered to build a new headquarters in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, the company said. The new lease represents Amazon’s largest expansion in New York since it stunned the city by abandoning those earlier plans. Amazon pulled back after facing a backlash from some politicians and activists over the roughly $3 billion in financial incentives the city and state had extended to woo the company and the 25,000 new jobs it had pledged to create.

    The company is now renting office space and is creating 1,500 jobs to start, well on pace for the 25,000 jobs promised over ten years.

    As for the lawmaker who made this happen, Ocasio-Cortez took a moment to mock her critics on Twitter just a week after gutting Republican talking points about free college education on the same platform.



    https://www.lancastercourier.com/201...o-cortez-right

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    Yeah, Amazon especially needs New York. Pretty glad the city of Austin is closing the giveaway spigot a bit, though other en ies are lining up to bend over like Williamson County did for the new Apple ranch.

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    3 billion in subsidies for 27 billion in tax revenues? OP is an accountant, right?

    And, rather than build a huge campus in HER district (6-8 million square feet), they are leasing space outside her district in Manhattan (335 thousand square feet). What a huge win for AOC.


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    3 billion in subsidies for 27 billion in tax revenues? OP is an accountant, right?

    And, rather than build a huge campus in HER district (6-8 million square feet), they are leasing space outside her district in Manhattan (335 thousand square feet). What a huge win for AOC.


    Actually, Long Island City is just outside AOC's district. My bad.

    Still dumb for her to victory lap over this.

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    these projects, like sports $Bs mega-stadiums, paid for by taxpayer muni debt (BigFinance enriched) and untaxef, then handed to for-profit owners who pay little or no taxes, have been proved repeatedly to be huge ripoff.

    I'm sure BigFinance/oligarchy $10Ms will be spent to defeat all The Squad ASAP, just like BigFinance, with DNC help, will block Liz Warren

    iow

    America will stay ed and un able.

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    IMAGINE STARTING A THREAD IN ALL CAPS TO DEFEND AOC AND GETTING DEBUNKED IN POST #3

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    3 billion in subsidies for 27 billion in tax revenues? OP is an accountant, right?

    And, rather than build a huge campus in HER district (6-8 million square feet), they are leasing space outside her district in Manhattan (335 thousand square feet). What a huge win for AOC.

    The proposed site was not in AOC's district.

    What reliable news source told you it was, Darrin?

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    The proposed site was not in AOC's district.

    What reliable news source told you it was, Darrin?
    See post #4

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    What reliable news source told you it was there?

    Or did you just come up with that beauty yourself?

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    Chump's definition of "reliable news source" includes NYT and WaPo so there's nothing you can post to counter his dissonance.

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    Chump's definition of "reliable news source" includes NYT and WaPo so there's nothing you can post to counter his dissonance.
    You think Gateway Pundit is a reliable source and I just showed you what they covered up.

    You're a gullible rube, Qhris.

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    IMAGINE STARTING A THREAD IN ALL CAPS TO DEFEND AOC AND GETTING DEBUNKED IN POST #3
    Actually, Long Island City is just outside AOC's district. My bad.

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    Warehouse would have created 25k jobs this created only 1.5k

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    that's Darrin's reliable source!

    thanks Qhris!

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    Warehouse would have created 25k jobs this created only 1.5k
    If you think they'll never hire any more people ever, sure.

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    RandomGay MIA

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    The claim is AOC will never be able to prove business will make money in NYC in the future.

    OK.

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    And no doubts, the Amazon promise about jobs, like nearly these BigCorp promises, won't be realized, and they wouldn't be punished.

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    lol because 1500 employees looks more like 25000+ employees... lol RG bought it hook, line, and sinker by the re bartender AOC.

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    If you think they'll never hire any more people ever, sure.
    Sure theyll create them in other cities

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    Sure theyll create them in other cities
    Why did they hire any in NYC then?

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    Yeah, Amazon especially needs New York. Pretty glad the city of Austin is closing the giveaway spigot a bit, though other en ies are lining up to bend over like Williamson County did for the new Apple ranch.
    This is a stretch.

    Amazon operates internationally. A city, as big as NY is is a drop in a bucket to them at the end of the day.

    Still good to have these secured jobs though. The more the better.

    Warehouse would have created 25k jobs this created only 1.5k
    This is also off the mark. The company said it would try to go for that target. Saying so it’s not so.

    These 1500 jobs are actually guaranteed which makes all the difference.

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    3 billion in subsidies for 27 billion in tax revenues? OP is an accountant, right?
    A ty one.
    And a cuck first and foremost.

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