Brain357
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We don’t need government picking winners and losers.The 25,000 number was some number that they said may happen in the future. Still could happen, they just aren't getting taxpayers money to do.
It's really sad. You support taking money from taxpayers to give it to the richest guy in the world but condemn doing to the same so that people can access basic health care.
You seem to have forgotten our reliable source and working link supporting your allegation.
It never was before either.
Amazon Was Never Going to Create 25,000 Jobs in Queens
Now that Governor Amazon Cuomo is grovelling for Amazon to come back to New York, it’s important to remember that the original sin of the “HQ2” deal is still true: Amazon was never going to bring 25,000 jobs to Long Island City.
That might surprise people, particularly since that number and its related economic activity have been the central arguments used to defend the deal. But to be clear, Amazon never actually promised to bring 25,000 jobs. Period. Go look for it.
Supporters point out that Amazon would get the full package of tax incentives, which are available to any company, only if it created the 25,000 jobs. That's absolutely true, but it proves the point. It shows that Amazon didn't need or really want the job incentives. Instead, it played off our failed economic development policies to get what it actually wanted.
What Amazon did care about, what it wanted more than anything, and what it would have gotten in the deal was a shiny new East River campus quickly, quietly, and cheaply.
Somehow you left out this one-word title above your article.
Opinion
No, it is a fact. There is nothing in that article that is not a fact. They never made any commitment or promise of 25,000 jobs. The incentives were already in place if they had. They didn't need an agreement for that. They wanted the taxpayers money for building their office and they wanted to skip the red tape that everyone else has to go through.
The city called their bluff and Amazon ponied up their own money.
But you continue to defend the corporate socialism.
Then show us your reliable source and working link. What you provided was an OPINION piece.
Your OPINION piece gives no source, whatsoever, for their allegations.
I can not provide what never existed. The argument was that Amazon was going to provide 25,000 jobs. It's up to you to prove that. You can't as that never existed.
Amazon pulls out of $3 billion deal to bring HQ2 to NYC
By Bob Fredericks, Carl Campanile and Ruth Brown
February 14, 2019 | 11:50am
They are Ama-gone!
In a stunning move, Amazon walked away on Thursday from its plan to build a massive campus in Queens that would have brought an estimated 25,000 jobs to the city in exchange for $3 billion in state and local tax breaks.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/amazon-pulls-out-of-3-billion-deal-to-bring-hq2-to-queens/