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| Stupid Midwesterners Don't Understand AOC's Job-Killing Joy |
| 2019-02-19 |
| [PJ] Amazon was about to deliver thousands of new jobs to New Yorkers, and billions of dollars in tax revenue to the city’s coffers ‐ but don’t you worry, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proudly helped put a stop to all that. In flyover country, we’re a bit confused about why someone might not actually want all those jobs and all those billions for their constituents, and that’s a story Salena Zito has for you today. Her latest is headlined, "The populist sledgehammer kills Amazon jobs that Middle America would love to have." Zito spoke with Tito Brown in Youngstown, Ohio, who said that he "can’t imagine driving a perfectly good thing out of a town that hasn’t had a perfectly good thing come its way in a very long time." More: Brown doesn’t really get that. He governs a city with a declining population, a 40 percent poverty rate, and would welcome the opportunity for a project such as Amazon to have considered locating here.But as Zito notes, "Ocasio-Cortez, who has become the leader of the left-wing insurgency within the Democratic Party, slammed the plan in a tweet the moment it was announced in mid-November last year." Why? Because NYC offered Amazon $3 billion in tax breaks to lure in billions and billions in new tax revenues. I’m not a fan of giving tax breaks to this company but not that company, or allowing tax shelters or credits to this kind of person but not that kind of person. My own outdated, naively republican preferences aside, the people and coffers in NYC had been looking at a real windfall. Had been, until the Permanently Pissed-Off Progs got their way. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs" Why do I have a vision of a man in purple velvet suit slapping Alexandria and telling her "Go out there and make me some bread, bitch."? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-19 09:40 |
| #1 "Ocasio-Cortez, who has become the leader of the FIFY What part of "From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs" didn't you understand? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-19 09:11 |