"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."
"Make no mistake, at the end of the day we lost $27 billion, 25,000-40,000 jobs and a blow to our reputation of being 'open for business.' The union that opposed the project gained nothing and cost other union members 11,000 good, high-paying jobs. The local politicians that catered to the hyper-political opposition hurt their own government colleagues and the economic interest of every constituent in their district [hey Occasional-Cortex, he's looking at you here]. The true local residents who actually supported the project and its benefits for their community are badly hurt. Nothing was gained and much was lost. This should never happen again."
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Trump had a foil in Hillary. AOC would be the next one up if only she were old enough.
Link: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/open-letter-new-york-state-budget-director-robert-mujica-regarding-amazon
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dumb statements that naturally many respond. Of course, you who are embarrassed by her, wishes she would be ignored.
Bring down the thunder
Need to be warned
Dumb as a rock & dangerous
she'll hang around and kill the Party just like Hillary did to 2016. Dems had better candidates in 2016 but had no guts to send Hillary packing.
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left and there’s no front runner, she’ll get in,” he said.
Link: https://www.theamericanmirror.com/ex-clinton-pollster-hillary-will-run-if-biden-doesnt-or-field-is-too-far-left/
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campaign for her. Why would they be doing this? To knock him out.
Would you vote for her again over Trump in 2020?
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people say she may run again as they go on the attack against Sanders. Only a fool would count her out. You may have a chance to vote for her again and therefore repeat your mistake.
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