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Definitely a big shame for long term. There are a huge amount of high paying jobs here.
Oh please. They say the same feces about the Olympics, etc.
Do you believe every sales brochure you get handed??
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NYC will be wishing they'd kept Amazon once the economy turns and jobs become not as plentiful as they are now.
No. Any gains would have been offset by the losses in housing and transit.
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But, hey, that's alright, the DC area and Nashville will happily take those high paying, average $150k jobs, no worries.
Aw, such sour grapes!
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NYC just let a small group of vocal folks hurt a huge lucrative opportunity for the masses with jobs, development and growth. Hopefully this won't be a precedent
Bull-feces.
It's all just sales copy. What idiot believes sales copy?????
Congrats!!!! NYC just lost 25,000 Amazon jobs that would of paid $150,000 a year. Way to go Socialist Democrats!
You want everyone on the government tit. First socialism, then it graduates to communism. The socialist Democrats are taking over the Democratic party.
I heard the Queens City Councilman (forgot his name) defending his opposition. Basically he's saying "basic Amazon didn't want to unionize, didn't support the unionizing in the SI warehouse, they are not welcome". When he was asked "You rather have 0 jobs over 25,000 non-unionized jobs" his answer was that "Cuomo, deBlasio and Bezos were too blame".
How stupid do you have to be to not realize that "your money or your life" is NOT a choice????
How stupid do you have to be to antagonize people such as Gianaris who were originally for you???????
Even De Blaz was miffed at the arrogant rich boys petulantly sulking away jsut bcause of a little neighborhood democracy!!
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Unions are destroying New York. So does the Democrats.
I'm skeptical of unions, same as I am of cops, but they are invaluable institutions in modern society.
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So to summarize the opposition for having 25,000 high paying jobs and revitalize this part of Queens was torpedoed because of:
- Lack of unionized jobs (mind you, that the construction job was supposed to unionized)
- A helipad
- $3B in tax break based on $30B return
So says Amazon. Why should anyone believe them?????
Why don't you believe economists who are almost all against corporate giveaways????????
Why don't you believe Mike Bloomberg, who is also against this?????????????
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I have no words to describe the people who are "happy" and "relieved" that Amazon pulled out.
You should be more concerned about the cognitive decline in people who think they're so smart paying a multi-billion-dollar business that already doesn't pay federal taxes the full asking price!!!
If what you said was true why didn't Amazon picked other cities with greater tax breaks?
Did you not read at all what I wrote? Amazon made clear in their search criteria that there are a number of factors involved in their decision. It's a balance of all the factors.
Good, they said the same thing about Barclays Center, oh but all those jobs... now look at that mess over there, from traffic congestion, higher price rents...millions dollar condos for foreign investors (locals not need apply)...the people loose more than the gains that they try to sell us..
All these high paying jobs is a laugh, they would all go to your Midwesterners trying to live the dream by moving to NYC paying an arm an a leg for a closet just to say they live here.
300 billion dollars in tax incentives that's like welfare on corporate crack, yet most of you on here get mad when someone buys lobster with food stamps at the grocery store...
And they had the nerve to ask for their own transit system, buy you'll get mad because immigrants are taking space in our own decrepit subway system..
This is handouts at the hyper billion dollar level...
Think a web based super Walmart, everything is all in house from warehousing to delivery. They would have no competition, push all small businesses out of business, no incentive to keep wages competitive, how would this be good for the average worker or New Yorker again?
The idiots here deserve to be lined up against the wall and shot in case of Revolution. That's the only way to move forward.
Despite economists saying that corporate giveaways don't work -- despite even Mike Bloomberg saying Amazon doesn't deserve such largess -- the idiots here will keep parroting Bozo Bezos' sales brochure while calling other people names.
And do you pay the full asking price of your big-ticket purchases???
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college professional jobs designed for educated white transplants to be unionized?
Why not? Though he's most likely referring to stuff like janitorial, concessions, etc. -- what's wrong with unionizing so-called white-collared workers?
Hell, your multi-million-dollar actors and actresses are union, too...so what??
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