Amazon is reconsidering opening part of its second headquarters in New York after fierce opposition from lawmakers, according to a new report.
The Washington Post, which is also owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, reported the Seattle-based tech giant is reconsidering the plan and has not leased or purchased any office space for the project. The report cited two people familiar with the company's thinking.
“The question is whether it’s worth it if the politicians in New York don’t want the project, especially with how people in Virginia and Nashville have been so welcoming,” one person familiar with the company’s plans told the Post.
I can't imagine why.
The Mayor thinks that everyone should have "free" health care, including illegal invaders. They also tick every other SJW "checkbox" there is there and have for a very long time, from union jackboots (you can actually wildcat strike a jobsite by simply plugging in a piece of test equipment yourself in that city) to every bit of "diversity" mandate there is -- quality of work be damned to Hell.
Rich people are leaving -- lots of them. They're leaving not so much because they have to pay a lot of taxes but because they don't get anything for their taxes. They're simply sucked up by corruption and people who aren't worth a bucket of spit.
Of course this new development is panicking a bunch of people -- not the least of whom are those who had "inside information" and started buying up property thinking they had struck gold. Now they're holding turds -- and those turds have very high property tax carrying costs too. They're going to lose their ass and, if leveraged, will be bankrupted.
Good.
Amazon said it would bring 25,000 high-paying jobs and 8 million square feet of office space, along with $500 million a year in "incremental tax revenue" over 20 years. Of course nobody ever defines what "incremental tax revenue" actually is; if you did that then you could put metrics on this and nail them when they failed to perform "as expected."
Of course this might have something to do with the left threatening to steal 90% of Beelzebezos income too. I suppose if I was thinking of moving my headquarters there and ****wits like Occasional Kotex started spouting that crap with every single Demoncrat piling on I might just say go **** yourself to New York as well.
I'm sure the crackheads and homeless can pay all the taxes NYC requires for their "social programs" -- right?
