Mon January 06, 2020 3:54 pm
Mon January 06, 2020 3:56 pm
Mon January 06, 2020 9:28 pm
Mon January 06, 2020 9:42 pm
Mon January 06, 2020 9:51 pm
bodysnatcher wrote:NYC and the surrounding region dodged a huge bullet that the city itself shot
Mon January 06, 2020 10:06 pm
Bi_3 wrote:bodysnatcher wrote: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.”
Mon January 06, 2020 10:16 pm
Mon January 06, 2020 10:19 pm
verb_to_trust wrote:Billion dollar conglomerates really care about people /s
Mon January 06, 2020 10:20 pm
durdencommatyler wrote:verb_to_trust wrote:Billion dollar conglomerates really care about people /s
we should be friends. why do you hate me so much?
Mon January 06, 2020 10:21 pm
verb_to_trust wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:verb_to_trust wrote: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
Tue January 07, 2020 2:04 am
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.
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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.
Tue January 07, 2020 3:00 am
96583UP wrote:again, if these were tax credits, the net benefit to NYC tax receipts would have still been positiveThe 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.
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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.
and what is bad about this?The workforce incentives were designed with upstate areas in mind, the official said, and to help disadvantaged populations.
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
Tue January 07, 2020 9:37 am
96583UP wrote:plus the area surrounding the HQ would have boosted property values and with it tax receipts
Tue January 07, 2020 6:45 pm
durdencommatyler wrote:verb_to_trust wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:we should be friends. why do you hate me so much?
I don't. I'm just a troll
Wed January 08, 2020 2:00 am
bodysnatcher wrote:96583UP wrote:plus the area surrounding the HQ would have boosted property values and with it tax receipts
Extreme displacement
Wed January 08, 2020 2:26 am
96583UP wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:96583UP wrote: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
Wed January 08, 2020 3:13 am
verb_to_trust wrote:96583UP wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:96583UP wrote:Donald Trump was totally out of line with that drone attack on the Iranian General and all this will do is cause a chain reaction in which more ‘regular people’ in that region suffer and become refugees
Extreme displacement
I do think Iranian theocracy is primitive and their regime brutal and intolerant, however. Referring to America as ‘the Great Satan’ oversimplifies the complexity of International Affairs and ultimately serves the interests of a tiny Iranian kleptocracy at the expense of most of its citizens.
Kill yourself.
Sun January 26, 2020 4:38 am
'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.
Sun January 26, 2020 3:03 pm
96583UP wrote:
'Glasses mean I'm smart''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.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/25/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-support-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign-election-fuels-speculation-2024
Thu March 19, 2020 10:19 pm