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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns Amazon HQ2 could worsen housing crisis in New York, DC
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:27 am
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:27 am
Dumb arse was elected... Pretty soon the island of the USA is going to tip over!
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Not everyone is excited about Amazon's pending announcement that new headquarters are coming to the D.C. and New York regions.
The online retail giant is expected to announce this week it has selected two metropolitan communities — Long Island City in New York and Arlington in Northern Virginia — as the locations of its split east-coast headquarters, in addition to Seattle.
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Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:30 am to Jjdoc
She's not entirely wrong
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:30 am to Jjdoc
Let me guess, it's a fundamental human right for people to live in NYC and DC?
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:30 am to Jjdoc
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Amazon is a billion-dollar company,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday. “The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.”
Education doesn't equal intelligence
This woman might be retarded. I'm becoming convinced her college degrees were just given to her
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:31 am to Jjdoc
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs more air time. I want her on TV representing the Dems all the time.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:32 am to RogerTheShrubber
All she had to do was spread her legs like the trashy whore she is.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:32 am to Jjdoc
Yeah she's totally right...not sure what's wrong with that statement. In my opinion Amazon should have moved their new headquarters to a midwestern city like Detroit. Then they would actually be helping a local economy in a big way. DC and NYC don't need any help right now.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:33 am to RogerTheShrubber
I’m pretty sure amazon had its eyes always set on ny and DC. But making it a competition between 18 other cities means they got the best deal.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:33 am to 14&Counting
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She's not entirely wrong
Sure she is. More housing will be built which benefits everyone.
She should probably be more upset with NYC housing laws and regulations.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:33 am to Jjdoc
Do you think this will make housing more or less expensive in NYC?
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:35 am to IdahoTiger
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In my opinion Amazon should have moved their new headquarters to a midwestern city like Detroit. Then they would actually be helping a local economy in a big way. DC and NYC don't need any help right now.
LOL at thinking Amazon is thinking of anything else except its own interests. It wants access to qualified employees who share the same mindset, so the options are California (where they are) and New York (where they are going). Also doesn't hurt that they get the "prestige" of having dual headquarters in those locations.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:35 am to 14&Counting
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She's not entirely wrong
She is
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:35 am to Jjdoc
Economic prosperity is likely to make socialism less attractive. That's her real problem with this move.
Best way for her to attack the threat to her, is to find the cloud behind the silver lining and make that the focal point. And that's what she's doing.
Best way for her to attack the threat to her, is to find the cloud behind the silver lining and make that the focal point. And that's what she's doing.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 10:01 am
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:36 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Sure she is. More housing will be built which benefits everyone. She should probably be more upset with NYC housing laws and regulations.
Demand has outweighed supply in NYC for nearly a century.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:36 am to RogerTheShrubber
She is an idiot BUT there are some underlying economic points that should concern every one.
1) Nobody could live on the lower wage jobs in NYC if the government did not subsidize their housing. It is wrong. This subsidized housing is in effect holding down wages. I once read an article about minimum wage jobs in NYC. My very first thought was how does anyone find labor at minimum wage in NYC? Well if they didn't have unbelievable levels of housing subsidies they would not find such help. They would have to pay people more money.
2) NY should not give Amazon tax subsidies. They should lower their taxes for everybody so that Amazon would invest there without subsidy.
1) Nobody could live on the lower wage jobs in NYC if the government did not subsidize their housing. It is wrong. This subsidized housing is in effect holding down wages. I once read an article about minimum wage jobs in NYC. My very first thought was how does anyone find labor at minimum wage in NYC? Well if they didn't have unbelievable levels of housing subsidies they would not find such help. They would have to pay people more money.
2) NY should not give Amazon tax subsidies. They should lower their taxes for everybody so that Amazon would invest there without subsidy.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:37 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I'm becoming convinced her college degrees were just given to her
I would imagine she's a freak in the sheets and swings both ways.
Sure-fire way to college success.
Then, when she's finally exposed and can't fake it anymore, she'll #metoo everyone.
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:38 am to slackster
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Do you think this will make housing more or less expensive in NYC?
It won't effect it. If it did, the city itself should lower those taxes that forced it up a long long long time ago
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:38 am to Jjdoc
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“Amazon is a billion-dollar company,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday. “The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.”
She has a point. Many people do not want all the problems that Amazon will bring, and they certainly don’t want to give away the farm in exchange for those problems.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 9:43 am
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:39 am to slackster
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Do you think this will make housing more or less expensive in NYC?
In the long run, negligible.
It will be an economic shot in the arm for Queens.
What do people like her want? No development in lower income areas? This is exactly what spurs economic development and opportunity
Posted on 11/13/18 at 9:39 am to RogerTheShrubber
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She's not entirely wrong
Sure she is. More housing will be built which benefits everyone.
But it can't be because:
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NYC housing laws and regulations.
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She should probably be more upset with NYC
Of course she should be, but she's a 20-something year-old socialist who hates paying rent. She has grasped that increasing demand for a stagnant supply will result in higher prices, and that that is bad for the people competing for that supply, but she has not grasped all the reasons why that supply is static: which is New York's aggressive land use, rent control policies, historical designations, and zoning laws which make adding new housing extremely difficult preventing supply from expanding with demand. She probably assumes supply isn't going up due to geography or greedy landlords.
This post was edited on 11/13/18 at 9:40 am
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