Amazon Says No to New York Headquarters.....

[Jackie S]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/amaz...s-reports.html

I'm not sure who I see as the good guys or the bad guys in this senario.

Amazon would bring jobs, but wanted substantial tax breaks. New York wanted the jobs, but giving the biggest corporation in the world massive tax incentives does not play well with the Liberal Voting Block.

The imovable object meets the unstoppable force.

[oeb11]

About Time someone stood up to Bezos and his massive Amazon handouts.

Unfortunately, there will be many other ill-advised cities vying for the "Prize".

Not worth the loss of reasonable taxation on the business.

[nevergaveitathought]

[QUOTE=Jackie S;1061267033]I'm not sure who I see as the good guys or the bad guys in this senario.

Amazon would bring jobs, but wanted substantial tax breaks.[QUOTE]

NY and amazon


neither a wellspring of good seems to me

ny has its tax laws

id say stick with them or change them for everyone

[grean]

Originally Posted by oeb11

About Time someone stood up to Bezos and his massive Amazon handouts.

Unfortunately, there will be many other ill-advised cities vying for the "Prize".

Not worth the loss of reasonable taxation on the business.

Here's the thing. Amazon ultimately will need to setup shop somewhere. If no one caves to their demands, Amazon will have to pick some place.

Corporate wellfare is not capitalism.

[themystic]

Originally Posted by grean

Here's the thing. Amazon ultimately will need to setup shop somewhere. If no one caves to their demands, Amazon will have to pick some place.

Corporate wellfare is not capitalism.

what about stadiums for sports? i sure wish the cowboys and rangers were in dallas instead of arlington

[Jackie S]

Originally Posted by themystic

what about stadiums for sports? i sure wish the cowboys and rangers were in dallas instead of arlington

And the Houston Oilers. We are still paying for crap that Bud Adams hoodwinked the County Commisioners into paying for, and he upped and moved to Tennessee anyway.

Then, after all of those renevations, the Astros moved to Minute Made Park, (then ENRON).

As much as I love the Astros, they are not "The Houston Astros". They are a professional baseball team that plays their home games in Minute Maid Park.

As for the Astrodome, I watched them build it, it served it's purpose, now I think they should implode the darn thing and use the space for parking. They could sell tickets for the event

[Jackie S]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...80a?li=BBnb7Kz

Bezo has met his match when the head of the Democrat Party speaks.

[bamscram]

The far left, and the far right both hate a successful corporation.
You guys are closer than you thought.

[oeb11]

Originally Posted by themystic

what about stadiums for sports? i sure wish the cowboys and rangers were in dallas instead of arlington

You are more than welcome to them in Austin!!
Jerry Jones is so proud of his stadium toy - it seats 20,000 less than Royal Memorial.
Which BTW - is smaller than Kyle Field.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

And the Houston Oilers. We are still paying for crap that Bud Adams hoodwinked the County Commisioners into paying for, and he upped and moved to Tennessee anyway.

Then, after all of those renevations, the Astros moved to Minute Made Park, (then ENRON).

As much as I love the Astros, they are not "The Houston Astros". They are a professional baseball team that plays their home games in Minute Maid Park.

As for the Astrodome, I watched them build it, it served it's purpose, now I think they should implode the darn thing and use the space for parking. They could sell tickets for the event

You can’t be an Astro fan if you’d make that kind of statement.

Though I’m still pissed Bud Adams let them fuck up the Astrodome for baseball, which is what it was really for anyway.

National shrine. Hands fucking off.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by oeb11

You are more than welcome to them in Austin!!
Jerry Jones is so proud of his stadium toy - it seats 20,000 less than Royal Memorial.
Which BTW - is smaller than Kyle Field.

First of all— keep the Cowboys out of AUSTIN
Second of all — Fuck the Cowboys
Third of all — Poor Aggies. They’ll always have Bevo envy.

Next?

[oeb11]

The only college to BBQ and eat its' mascot - not once , but Twice - Texas in Austin
Aggie mascot Reveille rules
Aggies Poor no longer!

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by oeb11

About Time someone stood up to Bezos and his massive Amazon handouts.

Unfortunately, there will be many other ill-advised cities vying for the "Prize".

Not worth the loss of reasonable taxation on the business.

I agree that Bezos doesn't deserve handouts and shouldn't ask for them.

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

First of all— keep the Cowboys out of AUSTIN
Second of all — Fuck the Cowboys
Third of all — Poor Aggies. They’ll always have Bevo envy.

Next?

You being a fellow Longhorn makes me wonder if I should have been an Aggie....needless to say, I've never felt that way even though that dickhead Democrat Paul Begala was the student association President after losing a write in campaign to Hank the Hallucination - an imaginary character from a fucking comic strip in The Daily Texan!

At least we still have Karl Rove and Farrah Fawcett and of course old Walter to salvage our school's reputation.

I've always thought Eli Wallach was a hell of an actor, too.

I would like to respectfully ask you to renounce your association with The University of Texas, please.

If you do that, I promise to never call you a gay person again.

Lovingly yours, Fred

[themystic]

Originally Posted by oeb11

The only college to BBQ and eat its' mascot - not once , but Twice - Texas in Austin
Aggie mascot Reveille rules
Aggies Poor no longer!

Wow those are some incredible profit margins. Is that what you are talking about when you talk about the Plantation state? Not paying the people who are doing the actual work and the "owner" makes all the money? Oh that's right, they, ( the players) get a free education. Similar to the Plantations in the South. The owners provided free living quarters and meals