Thank you for posting the links.

Businesses, unions and politicians signed the open letter. They are promising that Wesley Mouch will take care of it. The opposition wants more sacrifice, the rest are willing to wait a while. All of them are desperate to curb the more general exodus. Bezos is smart, but a "liberal" who has in the past been willing to deal with the Mouches. The other half of his expansion plans is still on track in the Washington DC area.

Open letter: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelp...

NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/bu...

I just heard the multiple businesses have taken out an ad in the New Yort newspapers asking Amazon to reconsider its pullout of NYC. If Bezos is smart (he has shown no sign of being dumb) he should stand firm with his decision and avoid NYC like he would the plague/

What took ya so long?????

The little darling is angry and defending her role in Amazon's decision:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocas...

I don't give it a week that the left will turn around and blame Amazon for the move. Cuomo is already doing it.

Slavery was the reason for the war. The entire political controversy leading up to it was over slavery -- slave states versus free states.

They were looking for a special deal more "friendly" to amazon. Their pragmatism didn't "work".

May nyc go down the tubes

I love AOC. We should encourage her wild ideas

The idiot voters chose an airhead radical, who never does her homework. Then Pocahontas jumped in supporting her. Can people ask for worse, if they truly want and need jobs? This one can be laid at the feet of stupid women politicians. NYC had the diversity of talent, that won them the hhq, but now it will go where maybe some of those people will move to get those jobs. Cortez just opens her mouth and and brains fall out. She never discusses thgs with local people or politicians, always just about her being radical. Marx let his children starve, while he ran off at the mouth rther than work, this time Cortez will let other people's children live in poverty. Keep your mitts off the environment unless you want to be exposed there too.

Exactly

I couldn’t figure out why amazon wanted to go to a sh$&hole place like New York anyway

The problem is why should company A get a different tax rate than company B? Why does Amazon rate get tax incentives when Moose Ears hardware store does not?

When AOC said "We can replace Amazon with small businesses..' that did it for me folks! Like I said, she IS A NUT!

Absolutely! It couldn't have happened to a better city...well, maybe San Francisco or Los Angeles. I wonder what AOC is going to do when she finds that the three billion dollars isn't there for her to spend. Maybe she will go back to her expensive apartment and think about running for president. If you can ruin a city, then why not the entire country...

Six of one. Half a dozen of another. Square root of 36 of these. Un logon mein se chhah.

subsidize (with object) : support an organization or activity financially. Oxford Dictionary.

LOL, I have to remember that ASS acronym!

Agree 100%. Stealing less of what was earned from the earner isn't subsidizing that earner. Besides, the elephant in the room these "taxers" miss is no corporation actually pays taxes. Any fat check delivered to the treasury by the corporation is an accumulation of higher prices to the consumer and lower wages/benefits to the worker... that is workers who still have the jobs that weren't eliminated due to excess taxation.

It wasn't a subsidy. It was a discount on taxes that would be paid by Amazon.

You have no idea what Rand's opinion would have been if she had "done the research herself." We do know, however, what her actual opinion was. And we do know her general views on what constitutes a justifiable war. Abolishing the institution of slavery certainly qualifies.

Cuomo was defeated by his own contradictions. He and his fellow democrats love to condemn "tax breaks for the rich", but he is willing to offer them in order to claim credit for "economic progress." The progressives called him on his hypocrisy, and rightly so.

So Ayn wasn't infallible and she bought the false history written by the Lincoln lovers. Had she done the research herself she would have changed her opinion about the reason for the war. Slavery was an abomination but it wasn't the reason nor rational justification for the war.
But she had a larger task and she did it well.

Cuomo was just trying to promote himself when he said he got Amazon by giving them 3 billion in tax breaks over 10 years,. AOC goes nuts that the rich corps are getting tax breaks. Not fair. .

What Cuomo failed to mention is that Amazon was going to pay 27 billion in taxes from which the 3 would be taken.

So NY is now losing 24 Billion in tax revenue and the jobs and the tourism.

Doofus Math coming from the ASS. - Association of Stupid Socialists

I doubt that any former slave would have agreed with you. Nor did Ayn Rand. She wrote:

"Capitalism cannot work with slave labor. It was the agrarian, feudal South that maintained slavery. It was the industrial, capitalistic North that wiped it out—as capitalism wiped out slavery and serfdom in the whole civilized world of the nineteenth century.

"What greater virtue can one ascribe to a social system than the fact that it leaves no possibility for any man to serve his own interests by enslaving other men? What nobler system could be desired by anyone whose goal is man’s well-being?" --from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal