NYC and the surrounding region dodged a huge bullet that the city itself shot

Yeah, sign up bonus for HQ2 in crystal city are currently around $100k. What a nightmare for LIC that would have been.


Look beyond the tweet:

“ New York was ready to provide $800 million more of incentives for HQ2 than previously mentioned. This included $500 million for a "Center for Commercial Innovation" near the headquarters to help Amazon partner with colleges on research, and even an offer to pay 25 percent of some graduates' first-year salaries. This was reportedly meant to help Amazon achieve workplace diversity.”

Billion dollar conglomerates really care about people /s

we should be friends. why do you hate me so much?

I don't. I'm just a troll

The state’s initial offer included $1.4 billion of tax credits based on the number of employees hired and $1.1 billion of various grants.

[...]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has repeatedly pointed out that Amazon’s Queens campus was projected to increase city and state tax revenue by as much as $27.5 billion over 25 years.

The workforce incentives were designed with upstate areas in mind, the official said, and to help disadvantaged populations.

again, if these were tax credits, the net benefit to NYC tax receipts would have still been positive



and what is bad about this?



there also would have been knock-on effects for the rest of the NYC economy, which boosts tax revenue. with Amazon setting up shop it would have attracted a large tech labor pool, and that would have led other corporations to boost their tech presence there in order to feed off the tech labor pool.

plus the area surrounding the HQ would have boosted property values and with it tax receipts

plus the area surrounding the HQ would have boosted property values and with it tax receipts

Extreme displacement

millennials need more places to park their fixed gear bikes and order designer vegan takeout

Kill yourself.

'I really hope she is the future': AOC's support of Sanders fuels 2024 speculation

It was billed as a rally for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. But the only aging white man on the platform was the film-maker Michael Moore, and attendee Brittany Springmeier wasn’t there to see him.

She was in Iowa City for real star of the show, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“She’s speaking for us. She’s speaking for the people. She has a passion for the millennials. She’s speaking for everyone in America who doesn’t have a voice,” said Springmeier, a millennial herself who is unable to work because of a disability.