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Old 02-14-2019, 02:06 PM   #1
Jim in CT
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Alexandria Cortez is a GENIUS

She sure showed Amazon. Thanks to her bitching and complaining, Amazon isn't building their second headquarters in New York.

25,000 jobs, with an average annual salary of $150,000. Works out to $3.75B in taxable income flowing into that area, every year. Money that will be taxed, money that will be spent, money that will be used to shop and buy lunch in the area where te office would have been.

The fact is, Amazon doesn't need tax subsidies. And I don't like corporate welfare, I don't like governments picking winners and losers in the business world. But the other fact is, this is how the world works. Amazon would be stupid not to seek the best deal it can get.

So because Cortez is so brilliant and so principled, this part of New York misses out on annual taxable revenue of 3.75B being pumped into the local economy. At a time when the governor just bemoaned the states deficits (which he blamed on Trump).

Where does she suppose the money comes from, to pay for things like the Green New Deal?

Yes, she sure showed Amazon!
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