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If a pretty girl says she wants to dance, you buy her the top shelf drink in the house and make sure you do not step on her toes.
Pretty girls get what they want and so do huge corps like Amazon or they just go away.
We give them what they want because they make us look better and have a tangible benefit even if the upkeep is expensive.
The government finding a way to snatch 1200 jobs from the hands of people who desperately need it, in a state that desperately needs it is unpardonable....Going back on your word to do it. PRICELESS!
This all smacks of a new governor trying to make a name for herself. This also reminds me of the garbage that Mark Sandford pulled the first month he got into office and all but sunk the CU/ICAR deal in order to benefit his low country development buddies.
As a side note. The No votes from Greenville and Charleston have more to do with future political firepower more than anything. Most people in this state outside of the Columbia metro have not heard about and have no interest in Amazon locating in Columbia, it just does not directly impact them. So this was easy political capital come election time for Reps from Charleston and Greenville.
"Representative so and so voted down giving big corporations a free ride"
The ad will read, or something to that effect.
Anyway..this was a MONSTER fustercluck and they should all be commended on keeping South Carolin's reputation of backwards and inept in tact.
Smells an awful lot like payback to me. I guess if you had to choose between the Amazon distribution center and the bricks and mortar retail operator the retail will deliver more revenue from taxes. But I sure wish we could have found a way to accommodate both.
Yep. Amazon was bringing in competition for unskilled workers and promising $15 an hour for them. That would have forced Wal Mart, Target, et al to raise their pay rates to attract/retain their work force. The Wal Mart announcement was nice but I believe they would have opened just as many stores and hired just as many people (at an average of $12.30 an hour) even if the Amazon deal went through. To me the announcement was an attempt to whitewash the whole thing.
The plot thickens. It appears that UPS is grumbling about Amazon pulling out and is considering downsizing it's 3500 person Columbia operation. Will they really do it? Doubtful but you never know. And is this simply Amazon getting a big dog to make their case for them the way Gov. Halley got Wal Mart to make hers?
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