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Showing Original Post only (View all)Amazon was valued at $1 trillion but pays $0 in federal taxes. So imagine my surprise [View all]
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'We Were Proven Right,' Says AOC After Amazon Expands in New York Without Taking Billions in Public Cash
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the Trump administration "focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families" after news broke Friday that Amazon was expanding its presence in New York City without the state giving the company billions in tax incentives.
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The decision by the online giant to lease 335,000 square feet of office space in Manhattan and employee 1,500 employees in the consumer and advertising departments was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The announcement came roughly 10 months after Amazon announced it was ditching its widely condemned plan to locate a second headquarters site in Long Island City, Queensa plan for which New York state would have given the online giant nearly $3 billion in tax incentives.
Ocasio-Cortez was among that plan's most vocal critics, asking at the time, "Why should corporations that contribute nothing to the pot be in a position to take billions from the public?"
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/07/we-were-proven-right-says-aoc-after-amazon-expands-new-york-without-taking-billions
There are multiple tweets from AOC on the link.
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Amazon was valued at $1 trillion but pays $0 in federal taxes. So imagine my surprise [View all]
Uncle Joe
Dec 2019
OP
"I don't think you are in the position about what I should or should not be celebrating"
ChubbyStar
Dec 2019
#27