New York (CNN Business) – Amazon is ditching its plans to build a new headquarters in New York after facing backlash from members of the community.
“After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens,” Jodi Seth, an Amazon spokeswoman, said in a statement.
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BREAKING: Amazon cancels plans to build New York headquarters https://t.co/2gGcS3RgkE pic.twitter.com/WMiiOjxD0W
— CNN (@CNN) February 14, 2019
"How come the people at the top just keep getting richer, and don't build more places to spread jobs and income around?" https://t.co/frH7GFlROK
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 14, 2019
Gonna be wild to see how you get a Green New Deal when your base is aghast at corporate subsidies/welfare. https://t.co/8BMmGYEsyo
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 14, 2019
And when you scare a company away from a low-carbon-footprint site near public transit in a big city, encouraging them to go to some sprawly corporate park. https://t.co/LfkUv0I9VS
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) February 14, 2019
I can see that Amazon ditching Queens is going to produce a cavalcade of "I'm so stupid I don't realize I'm making the opposite point to the one I think I'm making" tweets. https://t.co/Azue7ddwm2
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 14, 2019
You realize that doesn’t mean that it is now cash to spend elsewhere. The cancellation of the deal doesn’t mean NY all of a sudden has $3 billion to allocate to the subway or anything else. That’s not how tax abatements work
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) February 14, 2019
That's not how any of this works. https://t.co/VHcOTJC26g
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) February 14, 2019
In interview, AMAZON policy comms chief Jodi Seth tells me Amazon pulled out of NYC because of three months of sustained opposition from @AOC, @JimmyVanBramer & other officials…
“We decided we don't want to work in this environment in the long term.” https://t.co/xOhyho13Yf
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 14, 2019
The $3 Billion in subsidy doesn’t exist unless Amazon tax revenue is created.
This is economic illiteracy from @AOC. https://t.co/eMpO8HAhtP
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 14, 2019
Voters who elected this AOC person have to be as dumb as rocks. Thanks to her and her cohorts, Queens/Long Island and the state of New York potentially lost thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue, which would have paid for subway upgrades and whatever else this stupid congresswoman said she wanted. This woman should be tossed out of congress on her ear, but I’ll bet the voters will re-elect her if she runs again.
dumb as rocks
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