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Amazon opening HQ here means traffic jams and real estate bubble will get even worse but it means the city and state will benefit more down the road through income taxes. Amazon won't be paying any taxes but their workers will.
The only negative I see is that Cuomo and DiBlasio gave away billions easily to Amazon but they won't commit billions to fix the infrastructure such as the subway without extract more money from the people. They are giving $3 billion in tax payer money to Amazon as a bribe literally, in return for taxing salaries.
Basically Jeff Bezos doesn't have to pay a dime to build the place and hire people for years for free on NYC deal.
MTA NYC subways doesn't get this kind of deal, fares and toll increases keep going up while services and infrastructure are in terrible conditions. Why can't Cuomo send the MTA $3 billions to improve the system?
^ Umm, the MTA would just blow that $3 billion anyway with little to show for it. Fix the MTA's incompetence first before handing them any large amount of money.
With the return on the Amazon investment, the state and city will then have the money to fix the subways.
If Amazon didn't come, you would be where you are right now, which is no money to fix the subway either.
^ Umm, the MTA would just blow that $3 billion anyway with little to show for it. Fix the MTA's incompetence first before handing them any large amount of money.
With the return on the Amazon investment, the state and city will then have the money to fix the subways.
If Amazon didn't come, you would be where you are right now, which is no money to fix the subway either.
Agreed. The MTA needs to use technology to eliminate obsolete jobs and needs to open its contractors to cheaper and more efficient European and Asian contractors
^ Umm, the MTA would just blow that $3 billion anyway with little to show for it. Fix the MTA's incompetence first before handing them any large amount of money.
With the return on the Amazon investment, the state and city will then have the money to fix the subways.
If Amazon didn't come, you would be where you are right now, which is no money to fix the subway either.
Agreed.
MTA needs to bleed out once and for all.
Good bye to ancient architecture.
It once served a purpose.
I have posted over and over.
Fill the hole with sand.
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