The Path Amazon Rejected
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The Path Amazon Rejected
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#2Big Corp: We don't need to pay taxes, our employees do it on our behalf.
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#3Amazon screwed up when they made choosing a place into a reality contest. That came off as egotistical and people took notice. They brought the attention on to themselves. I think they finally realized that walking out of it and letting it die down is the best way going forward.
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#4I don't buy de Blasio's outrage. If he was truly worried about Amazon being a "bad neighbor," why did he have a carte blanche policy until the very moment they backed off? In fact, it took regular citizens asking the hard questions for Amazon to back off in the first place. Aren't we electing mayors to fight these fights for us?
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#5This is just a face-saving op-ed by a guy who wants to run for President. The fact that they only gave him an hour's notice shows just how gullible he was and how little respect Amazon had for him in the first place. All of those things he counseled them to do - hire people from the public housing projects, meet with labor organizers, etc - should have been concessions extracted before he signed onto the deal.
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#6de Blasio tweeted this after Amazon cancelled:
https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1096110674613358593
"working with the community" is code for "bribe" among the community organizer types.
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#7Amazon wanted public money to setup their operations - well they got it together with all the rest that comes with it. If they ever take federal money (and going down 0 tax rate is that path), they’ll need to pray they won’t be nationalized.
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#8I don't buy de Blasio's outrage. If he was truly worried about Amazon being a "bad neighbor," why did he have a carte blanche policy until the very moment they backed off? In fact, it took regular citizens asking the hard questions for Amazon to back off in the first place. Aren't we electing mayors to fight these fights for us ?
It's not outrage, it's spin. He represents one of the two parties that was prepared to engage in a deal that ordinary people get very angry about. (i.e. massive corporate tax breaks) So if the media plays along with the spin, he will succeed in shifting a lot of the outrage away from his administration and on to Amazon.
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#9I'm skeptical of the article. I most want to see a more descriptive summary of "the agreement we struck with Amazon back in November".
Is it public?
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#10This is just a face-saving op-ed by a guy who wants to run for President. The fact that they only gave him an hour's notice shows just how gullible he was and how little respect Amazon had for him in the first place. All of those things he counseled them to do - hire people from the public housing projects, meet with labor organizers, etc - should have been concessions extracted before he signed onto the deal.
> All of those things he counseled them to do - hire people from the public housing projects, meet with labor organizers, etc - should have been concessions extracted before he signed onto the deal.
Exactly my thoughts. Though Amazon should have done this in the first place instead of doing that awful HQ2 search spectacle.
Another thing that jumps out when reading this editorial from the mayor is how strange it is to see him acknowledge Amazons behavior with the min wage tax increase in Seattle that they threw a tantrum about, and yet still he invited them to come to NYC with the tax breaks on a silver platter.