So what?
Did you watch the video?
She is actually brilliant.

Got to love the right wing twisting themselves into pretzels to support amazon and attack bezos at the same time.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Feb 16 2019 10:12pm

got to love u emotional yet uninformed hacks mouth off & then get slapped in the face by facts


Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) blasts AOC as 'not progressive' and 'out of touch' for pushing Amazon out of New York

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6710841/Mayor-Bill-Blasio-blasts-AOC-pushing-Amazon-New-York.html


New York Governor Cuomo (D) blasts AOC and left-wing Democrats for 'putting political interests above community' and driving away Amazon - despite polls showing most people supported tech giant's new HQ

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6707007/Cuomo-blasts-AOC-Democrats-derailing-Amazon-headquarters-plans-New-York.html

This post was edited by HeLiCaL on Feb 16 2019 10:22pm

The video posted above really is relevant.
You should be cheering though, because trump wanted this more than cortez did, you are literally only mad about it because she did it.

"A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City."

Would love these relationships to be defined.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Feb 16 2019 10:26pm

So some right wing Dems are corporate bootlickers just like the right wing Republicans? Not surprising to anyone who ever pays attention to politics.

Well crap now it won't post lol

This post was edited by tman65ky on Feb 16 2019 10:34pm

blah disregard

This post was edited by tman65ky on Feb 16 2019 10:34pm

The NY subsidy would of been around 3 billion.

The revenue generated to the state was estimated to be around 27.5 billion over 25 years.

Let’s say that we don’t want to use that estimate but go off salaries. Let’s say average wage of the 25000 people would of been 100k

100*25000= 2.5 bil

So in less than 2 years the earnings revenue would exceed the subsidy.



A company wouldn’t be looking to build a hq unless they were commited to being there for quite awhile.. most certainly more than 2 years.

Rofl actually missed a zero it’s 2.5 billion 100k times 25k people, yeah they royally fucked up. even if the average salary is cut in half to 50k that’s still 1.25 billion per year in salary revenue.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Feb 16 2019 11:02pm

Putting aside the general issue of corporate subsidies, the Amazon deal was good for New Yorkers.

More jobs, tax revenue, and the lucky ones get to sell their houses at a huge markup and move. The communities impacted were largely in support.

Cortez has succeeded in reducing minority opportunity while simultaneously driving away a largely democratic company.

She's an absolute brick, it has been fun to watch.

yeah the increase to pure business output to the area from this would have been quite sizable and would have offset a one-time tax subsidy with ease. not like the increase to gdp generated from ongoing activities is a one-time thing but hey it’s hard to explain this to certain parties

that said the will of the people a few politicians won out so we should respect their decision

This post was edited by excellence on Feb 17 2019 09:15am

Your math makes it apparent that giving $3 billion in subsidies directly to the people of New York would have a greater economic multiplier effect than giving it to Amazon.