Amazon Tells New York to Piss Off

[Mark1T]

Wow. This is going to cause more infighting among Cuomo and AOC. I feel for the community's loss, but I have no sympathy for the political stock loss for AOC who almost single-handily dissuaded Amazon from New York.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-...y-headquarters

[OPGenesis]

In4 the reactions from New York.

[Mark1T]

In4 the reactions from New York.

Welcome, OPG.

[ZenBowman]

LMAO, lets see how this plays out now.

[BS57]

lol....when libs collide

Bozo and Cortex

[tk217]

Wow. This is going to cause more infighting among Cuomo and AOC. I feel for the community's loss, but I have no sympathy for the political stock loss for AOC who almost single-handily dissuaded Amazon from New York.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-...y-headquarters

Communities gain - Amazon pays ass and hires part time all while avoiding taxes. ****ty deal for the local community.

Best thing Amazon can do is make more robots and hire less and less people until almost fully automated.

https://www.fleetowner.com/economics...ase-operations

This company went out of business because of Amazon.

Not because Amazon exists - but because Amazon doesn't pay.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank...ce-2019-2?op=1

UPS and FedEx, for instance, have capped how many deliveries they'll fulfill for Amazon because the profit margins are much lower for the high number of those small packages.

[topperstyle]

[JoeDelts]

Jeff told New York No thanks Jeff.

[OPGenesis]

Communities gain - Amazon pays ass and hires part time all while avoiding taxes. ****ty deal for the local community.

Best thing Amazon can do is make more robots and hire less and less people until almost fully automated.

These jobs were not warehouse jobs - these were HQ positions with the average salary being 150k.

[dj10show]

In4 the reactions from New York.

All of my friends and I didn't want them, because all of those factory jobs they bring in are low-wage and the tax breaks and incentives they were getting would have taken forever to break even on. It's like when rich NFL owners beg to have their stadiums subsidized by the taxpayer, citing an influx of jobs. People fail to consider the fact that those jobs are Aramark workers getting paid jack and ****.

[John L]

I guarantee you that all the deranged NYC politicians who were complaining about this never expected Amazon to actually cancel

[sandaltan]

lol who cares? amazon will have a warehouse somewhere. its not like its a loss for the country. its not like theyre moving to china so they can manufacture trump's clothing line

[LinuxJon]

This is the sort of thing where I just cannot.... cannot... believe people actually support the left.

BRB, 25,000 middle class jobs vanish from your city
BRB, you're happy bc the company won't make as much money?

[OPGenesis]

All of my friends and I didn't want them, because all of those factory jobs they bring in are low-wage and the tax breaks and incentives they were getting would have taken forever to break even on. It's like when rich NFL owners beg to have their stadiums subsidized by the taxpayer, citing an influx of jobs. People fail to consider the fact that those jobs are Aramark workers getting paid jack and ****.

Post#10, please.

[topperstyle]

lol who cares?

Everyone but you.

[Mark1T]

LMAO, lets see how this plays out now.

For sure.

lol....when libs collide

Bozo and Cortex

Going to be fun to watch.

Sad!

Jobs are bad mmmkay

Yeah. Who needs jobs

She hit the ground running. Running her State into the ground within a couple of months. Has to be a record.

Jeff told New York No thanks Jeff.

Yes

These jobs were not warehouse jobs - these were HQ positions with the average salary being 150k.

Was going to post same. Thanks.

[VoxExMachina]

LMAO, lets see how this plays out now.

They'll spin it as some sort of win.

[NKWulf]

as a New York resident, i can say this officially sucks. We could have used those jobs.

[topperstyle]

They'll spin it as some sort of win.

The funny part is we (normies who aren't edgy anti-orange man) can't even begin to come up with a logical spin on this that has any sort of positive outcome because, well, we are equipped with common sense, reason, and testosterone.

[JoeDelts]

They'll spin it as some sort of win.

CNN will spin it as:

"A Historic Win for the People of New York"

and the mouth breathing NPC's will lap it up.

[sandaltan]

They'll spin it as some sort of win.

its not that hard to spin since its not a net loss. so New York doesnt get the amazon deal? another city will. its a net equal for the country. for every person who complains that NY wont get amazon, theres another person celebrating that their city will. thats why i say who cares

[tk217]

These jobs were not warehouse jobs - these were HQ positions with the average salary being 150k.

I don't think so.

I would love to see the evidence. It is more like 10 executives make 5,000,000 and the rest are paid below 80K a year.

The thing with "averages" is they are not "median" and that is the tricky thing with words. Amazon is very tricky like that. They love to use "mean" not "median" in what they say. It just makes everything sound better than 13 dollars an hour.

[sy2502]

In case you wonder why these mega corporations lean Democrat:

- Democrats want huge corporate taxes.

- Corporations make tax deals with local governments to pay no taxes.

- Their competitors can't make the same deals.

- Their competitors pay huge corporate taxes.

- Corporations wins.

[acrawlingchaos]

Any idea where it will go?


Edit: found it; so Virginia maybe? Or No where?

The company had chosen New York as well as a site in Northern Virginia for major expansion. On Thursday, the company said it had no plans to reopen a search for a second location.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/n...q2-queens.html

[OPGenesis]

its not that hard to spin since its not a net loss. so New York doesnt get the amazon deal? another city will. its a net equal for the country. for every person who complains that NY wont get amazon, theres another person celebrating that their city will. thats why i say who cares

It's income that the state loses, which at this point they really can't afford with all the wealthy exiting.

[tk217]

It's income that the state loses, which at this point they really can't afford with all the wealthy exiting.

New York has a problem with taxes - maybe they should focus on that sucking sound as to why not only the wealthy are exiting but so is all of up state new york.

https://www.empirecenter.org/publica...york-counties/

[OPGenesis]

I don't think so.

I would love to see the evidence. It is more like 10 executives make 5,000,000 and the rest are paid below 80K a year.

The thing with "averages" is they are not "median" and that is the tricky thing with words. Amazon is very tricky like that. They love to use "mean" not "median" in what they say. It just makes everything sound better than 13 dollars an hour.

I get it - I am not a fan of Amazon either. If you want to do your own reporting, and find out what median is, post it here so I can see.

[LinuxJon]

All of my friends and I didn't want them, because all of those factory jobs they bring in are low-wage and the tax breaks and incentives they were getting would have taken forever to break even on. It's like when rich NFL owners beg to have their stadiums subsidized by the taxpayer, citing an influx of jobs. People fail to consider the fact that those jobs are Aramark workers getting paid jack and ****.

Uh.

You realize now they will be paying $0 tax to the city, right? It wasn't as though the city was going to cut them a giant check out of the general fund. They were just going to tax them at a lower rate than other businesses. Now they are going to get $0 instead of probably $10,000,000's per year.

[Mark1T]

All of my friends and I didn't want them, because all of those factory jobs they bring in are low-wage and the tax breaks and incentives they were getting would have taken forever to break even on. It's like when rich NFL owners beg to have their stadiums subsidized by the taxpayer, citing an influx of jobs. People fail to consider the fact that those jobs are Aramark workers getting paid jack and ****.

All of this is BS and intentionally misleading.

They'll spin it as some sort of win.

100%

as a New York resident, i can say this officially sucks. We could have used those jobs.

Man speaks the truth. When New York needed the revenue the most, when it is already operating at a deficit, this is a significant loss.

The funny part is we (normies who aren't edgy anti-orange man) can't even begin to come up with a logical spin on this that has any sort of positive outcome because, well, we are equipped with common sense, reason, and testosterone.

Truth

CNN will spin it as:

"A Historic Win for the People of New York"

and the mouth breathing NPC's will lap it up.

Most likely.

its not that hard to spin since its not a net loss. so New York doesnt get the amazon deal? another city will. its a net equal for the country. for every person who complains that NY wont get amazon, theres another person celebrating that their city will. thats why i say who cares

As I wrote above, when New York needed the revenue the most, when it is already operating at a deficit, this is a significant loss.

I don't think so.

I would love to see the evidence. It is more like 10 executives make 5,000,000 and the rest are paid below 80K a year.

The thing with "averages" is they are not "median" and that is the tricky thing with words. Amazon is very tricky like that. They love to use "mean" not "median" in what they say. It just makes everything sound better than 13 dollars an hour.

You need to come up with the evidence to support your claims. They are wrong. But, bear in mind that most democrats in New York wanted the Amazon deal. From a business perspective, I agree with them.

[shmobin]

These jobs were not warehouse jobs - these were HQ positions with the average salary being 150k.

25,000 HQ positions.

LMAO