Yarddog
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Y’all act like New York won’t have other businesses swoop in .
It’s a disgrace how righties kiss big biz ass . “Let the working stiffs pay taxes while the billionaire company pays nothing”
Reading comprehension is not the strong suit of you stupid Moon Bats, is it?
"Incredibly, I have heard city and state elected officials who were opponents of the project claim that Amazon was getting $3 billion in government subsidies that could have been better spent on housing or transportation. This is either a blatant untruth or fundamental ignorance of basic math by a group of elected officials. The city and state 'gave' Amazon nothing. Amazon was to build their headquarters with union jobs and pay the city and state $27 billion in revenues. The city, through existing as-of-right tax credits, and the state through Excelsior Tax credits - a program approved by the same legislators railing against it - would provide up to $3 billion in tax relief, IF Amazon created the 25,000-40,000 jobs and thus generated $27 billion in revenue. You don't need to be the State's Budget Director to know that a nine to one return on your investment is a winner.
You act as if Amazon was doing everyone a favor. They put cities against each other so they could score special favors.
Boston was on their short list and everyone was glad they passed !
You assume that other business will not be moving into that prime biz real estate . It’s not amazon or nothing .
Companies arnt in business to do people favors, they are in business to make money and the by product of that, is that they create jobs and tax revenue which are all positive things. And in this case yes, they would be doing massive upgrades to a blighted area. All positive.