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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters

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  1. Revmitchell

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    Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from some lawmakers and union leaders, who contended that a tech giant did not deserve nearly $3 billion in government incentives.

    The company, as part of its extensive search for a new headquarters, had chosen Long Island City, Queens, as one of two winning sites, saying that it would create more than 25,000 jobs in the city.

    But the agreement to lure Amazon stirred an intense debate about the use of public subsidies to entice wealthy companies, the rising cost of living in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods and the city’s very identity.

    “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,’’ Amazon said in a statement.

    The company’s decision is a major blow for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had set aside their differences to bring the company to New York.

    But it was at least a short-term win for insurgent progressive politicians led by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose upset victory last year occurred in the area where Amazon had planned its site. Her win galvanized the party’s left flank, which mobilized against the deal, and on Thursday she seemed to revel in the company’s retreat.

    Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters
     
    #1 Revmitchell, Feb 14, 2019
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    Guess this means NY city will be the city where her socialist experiment will be on display!
     
    #2 Yeshua1, Feb 14, 2019
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    Bezos is the richest man in the world and is called the Prime Minister of the Universe. He deserves no tax breaks. We already have four Amazon warehouses in Indianapolis so I am praying that he does not come here with his headquarters. I think that he should go to St. Louis.
     
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    We would welcome amazon to Florida
     
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    Truckers probably would like driving out of Florida, also, I am saying St. Louis because it is such a depressed area with a high crime rate and yet is centrally located so Amazon would be doing a public service by going there. Downtown Indianapolis probably has a lot of vacant office space but everyone is moving out of Indianapolis so I don't know.
     
    #5 church mouse guy, Feb 15, 2019
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    How about coming to downtown Detroit?
     
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    Works for me.
     
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    Detroit, Buy up the city, Build Robocop...
     
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    Detroit as the largest number of churches per capita of any major US city, and yet most of them are liberal, into prosperity, word of faith junk theology etc!
     
    #9 Yeshua1, Feb 22, 2019
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    Thank you for that information! I had no idea! Detroit in the old days was quite a place. Now it should be bulldozed and forgotten.
     
    #10 church mouse guy, Feb 22, 2019
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    Actually , it should be the centerpiece for God, as when the Lions win the Super Bowl in the Future, can there be ANY doubts that was a miracle?
     
    #11 Yeshua1, Feb 22, 2019
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    I hate to hear that. The big Democrat should have gone there and paid the high taxes the party says are good for us.
     
    #12 Reynolds, Feb 22, 2019
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    I am wondering if the Amazon employees that would have had to transfer to NYC were telling Bezos that they did not want to move to that high tax environment because it would be a cut in pay for them because of the taxes?
     
    #13 church mouse guy, Feb 22, 2019
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