The really sad part in all of this is that Baltimore continues to have the issues sited by Trump for 50 years now. Imagine if Liberals and Democrats shifted the energy and rigor with which they are going after Trump towards changing course and doing something different. Every failure with Liberals and Democrats is blame, blame, blame.
I am a lifelong Marylander. I drive through West Baltimore and see what Trump is talking about. I was in the City when the riots broke out in 2015. Trump may very well lose in ‘20, then what? What are Cummings and the Democrats going to do about Baltimore? Blame the Republicans?
Most Northern cities went Democrat in the 1950's. Detroit, Baltimore and Philly are glaring examples. That's when the great migration of Blacks from the South to the North occurred. Democrat Mayors embraced the migration with WELFARE and other give aways to attract Blacks, and their VOTES, purely to gain, and retain POWER.
Since then, we've had one more corrupt Democrat city administrations after another. Now, maybe the Black Communities in these cities see they've been USED, and ABUSED.
Democrats have never been held accountable for urban failures. They take credit for urban successes such as revitalization efforts which is great but when it comes to the failing programs they implemented, they blame everything from white people leaving the city, white people moving back to the city, to corporations pulling out of the city. On corporations pulling out as they did 40-50 years ago, instead of harping on why they pulled out, they should be focused on what it takes to bring them back. But, Democrats can’t and they won’t. AOC driving away Amazon’s high -paying jobs out of Queens is a shining example of this. She and her masters could not get past the notion of Amazon getting a tax break incentive so she pissed away 1,000s of high paying jobs because it is more valuable to her and her alone to keep class warfare in place.
So AOC complained it would cost NYC... How much?
Winning the bidding war for Amazon’s
AMZN, -0.08% secondary corporate headquarters came with a steep price tag —
$3.4 billion.
This is what Amazon’s ‘HQ2’ was going to cost New York taxpayers
How many jobs?
Amazon will create jobs and bring revenue to the city. In2017, de Blasio announced his “New York Works” plan to bring 100,000 high-paying jobs to the city;
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/.../amazon-hq2-nyc-queens-long-island-city-explained
How much was then the average Amazon salary?
By comparison, a full-time warehouse associate at one of Amazon's fulfillment centers in New Jersey could make as much as $13.85 per hour,
So the average salary warehouse worker $26,000.
What is NYC city income tax: 3.876%
New York Income Tax Calculator | SmartAsset.com
So the total city income tax minimum to NYC... 100,000 * $26,000 * 3.876% = $100,776,000
Total NY state income tax..8.82% = $229,320,000
Total Federal Medicare/SS payments BY Employer: 6.2% $161,200,000 Employee: $161,200,000 Total Medicare/SS payments: $322,400,000
So we have a total of $652,496,000 a year in tax revenue that AOC threw away!
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