Ocasio-Cortez goes on tear defending role in Amazon’s New York exit
 

Ocasio-Cortez just cost the state of New York

- 25,000 NEW EMPLOYEES

- @$150,000 AVERAGE SALARY

- $27.5 BILLION IN TAX REVENUES

FYI, NY'ers don't care.

Bunch of people not from there trying to have fake outrage for redneck/hat points.

27 billion is a lot in tax revenue. What a colossal blunder. I'm sure 25,000 jobs @ 150k a year would have helped.

I am perfectly fine with what happened.

In all honesty, Amazon was about to bend NYC over and fuck it from behind. It went to NYC and said "We aren't going to pay ANY taxes" and expect the city to shell out tens of millions of dollars. No. Unemployment in NYC is 4.3%, right in line with everyone else.... They don't need the jobs. Amazon can go fuck itself.

I love Amazon. I have Amazon dots in every room, and buy from them a few times a month. However, they pull in billions of profits and don't pay ANY taxes. Fuck that.

the right wing is too stupid to see the real problem: 99.9999% of all business owners pay their taxes...except bezos...right wingers will pretend that no other jobs will ever be available...

great idea: why not give everybody a tax break? oh right...somebody has to pay taxes...

not bezos tho :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Trump has done more damage, but go on with your agenda and defend your corporate masters!

Those jobs would have went to commuters from Jersey and upstate while the nyc residents got priced out for continued gentrification.

Fuck all that.

Oh I guess cleaning out the ghetto trash and making the place more safe and desirable is a bad thing? lol

Sorry you're not entitled to live anywhere when you're not paying for it. If you want to choose where you live, get off the government dole.

Ghetto trash? Queens is safe af, clean and damn near suburban compared to the rest of nyc.

This ain't the 80s no more lol.

Them residents need good paying jobs, not corporations driving up their living expenses while the jobs go to non-residents.

Oh i'm are you are, rochard. Imagine if trump did this you would have a coronary.


And they would have paid over 27 billion in taxes you moron.

sure , 150K per job ..... drink the FOX Kool-Aid ....

That's right from that baby killer (D) Cuomo.

One thing I'm curious about…

I read somewhere that she had a $4000 savings account and people were ripping on her about it. I think that's fantastic. Most people don't have any savings account at all. It's nice to see that she does.

But what I'm curious about is, how does that play into the vision of a socialist? That $4000 is more than most will ever have. What is the acceptable limit of somebody saving money and being able to say that they shouldn't have to spread the wealth with others?

Thx for the link :thumbsup:thumbsup

this is not what socialism or communism is about...both systems naturally want their citizens to earn lots of money...but both in theory want as much equality as possible therefore the means of production are owned by everybody...

you would be surprised at how normal communism was for example in yugoslavia...it worked until the west started to meddle...people had considerable savings accounts because the state gave away houses and apartments and most of the population had 0 debt...

This is what I have a problem with, or maybe don't understand.

The fact that she was able to save $4000 means that she was able to lower her expenses to an amount, by sacrificing, and able to save that additional money whereas other people were not able to. This could then mean that next time she should be paid less money because the $4000 is proof that she didn't truly need it all.

The government does this with budgets all the time. They will give a department a budget of let's say $1 million. If that department finds a way to have expenses of only $900,000, that leaves $100,000 left over. The next budget cycle, that department will only get $900,000 because they proved in the previous cycle that's all they really needed. This leads to departments burning through every penny they are given because they don't want to lose their budget the next time. Creating extreme waste and nonchalant attitudes towards money when they should be rewarded for saving money instead of punished.

But what you are saying is, "I will give you both the same exact job, with the same exact opportunities and what you do with those opportunities is on you." Is that right?

We have the impression that everyone in Congress is rich. That is not always the case.

One time CNN did an interview with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, discussing how he sleeps in his office. According to the video, he makes $174k a year.... That's a lot of money to maintain a house at home and also an apartment in Washington DC.

It's really an interesting video...



Not everyone in Congress is rich. And I think we need more of this. Someone like Donald Trump who obviously hasn't been in a grocery store in forty years and someone like Hillary Clinton who hasn't driven a car in forty years shouldn't be making our laws. We need average every day ordinary Americans who understands the impact of the laws they pass.

Saving money & personal wealth are fine with Democratic socialists.

I'm not a socialist. I'm a blue dog Democrat.

I'm going to point out what is socialist in our current society in America.

GoFundMe - socialist

Pooling money to build a wall - socialist

Public schools - socialist

Military - socialist

Medicaid - socialist

Social security - socialist

Socialists believe the government should provide basic needs & services like healthcare, education, etc. to citizens.

Democratic socialists don't believe in authoritative governments controlling your every move they believe in voting & the power of the people. They also believe in taking the dark money & corporate bribes/lobbying out of government.

https://www.businessinsider.com/diff...cialist-2018-6

this is not how it worked at all...people in communist countries had savings because they had 0 debt...nobody told them they have too much and nobody told them what to do with the money...what you are saying does not exist...my grandmother left her life savings to my mom it was a considerable amount of money and it was accumulated and stored in a commie bank for like 50 years...it is unimaginable that some state official would come and take her money...I come from a banking family and I can tell you that there was no legal mechanism for the state to do this until recently even for unpaid taxes...10 years ago there was SHIT the state could do to take your money...

I have only had my money seized by americans...first egold and 1mdc then liberty reserve...I would never ever ever under any circumstances bank in the USA...not because of americans but because of the US gov and how happy they are to seize shit...

Oh everything was hunky-dory in communism land. There's always an excuse why it always fails :1orglaugh

And we have all these services directly because of CAPITALISM and free markets.

This is the only thing that I agree with AOC on. Amazon should help other cities that really need it.

They care

Why are you lying?

You still can't have an honest conversation. You're back on ignore.

Definition of socialism. 1 : any of various economic and/or political devices advocating collective or governmental ownership and/or administration of the means of production and distribution of goods and/or services.

She has some nice knockers..

Lets see how you guys feel about her when the newest bunch of shit comes out. You'll see her version of socialism, at least concerning her boyfriend.

Should be hitting the news just about now...

It worked fine...we did not have nukes or bacteria to keep invaders out...big mistake...

The Job Creators Network (JCN) is an advocacy group founded by Home Depot co-founder and former CEO Bernie Marcus.[1] It describes its agenda as to promote small businesses and has been described as leaning conservative.[2]


BTW, nice avatar ....

Your usage confirms what most people saw ... a liitle smart ass racist punk :2 cents:

haha no it didn't. It failed miserably and you know it.

It's very well established here that he's a dumbass not a smartass :2 cents:

Who cares who put it up - the message is still the same - we need to keep you libs as far away as possible from our economy.

Watch your step there mooslim. I'm sure the lawyers could add your ass on to any of the many defamation lawsuits they have going.

Never go full paul markham...

To quote Obama, elections have consequences. If the people of New York are not happy with her performances, they can vote her out in 2020.

Everything I've read says it was a colossal failure. Can you point me to some literature to the contrary?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

No, they don't. Only a small minority give a shit.

I can speak only for yugoslavia...my dad purchased a brand new volkswagen beetle from his first 2 salaries in his first ever job...keep in mind the beetle was a new car back then and considered a good normal car...I spent nearly 20 years of my life in communism and had 6 shops by the time I was 18, my workers had decent salaries with which they could support their families without any problems...everybody I knew had 0 debt and 0 rent free college free healthcare etc...

I have no doubt invader US literature will say everything but invader politics is evil and a massive failure....your western empires depend on exploitation of everybody possible and a democratic system is easy to control with your printed money...I can understand why you hate communism and I am happy to see commies resist you invaders everywhere possible...

That's why I asked you. Surely you can point to something (other than yourself) praising this communism and how it was so wonderful. Like I said, everything I've read on it say it not only failed but failed miserably.


What kind of shops did you have? Were they run like a normal shop? Like you buy products, you mark them up, sell them and keep the profits? How does that all work in a communist society vs capitalistic?

Yeah I guess the people that don't work for a living don't care. It's not like they were going to get a job anyways :1orglaugh

^^do you ever have any idea what you talking about?

Like i'm sure nobody cares that she cost the state 30 billion in tax revenue and 25,000 jobs.

No biggie.

You know who doesn't care? Probably the people who run in your circle aka the unemployed aka the gibbmedats.

dude I had 0 documents for my 6 shops I had 18 unregistered workers and the main shop was 2 floors under the "serbian IRS" branch...I was a software pirate I sold everything from ZX spectrum audio tapes to commodore amiga floppy disks to PC disks to CDs...there was no register, no receipt, no proof of rent...I literally opened up a draw with money and filled my pockets until they bulged up and moved to the next shop...by the time I had registered my first company and opened my first bank account I had 15+ years of doing business under my belt and had millions of $$ in turnover before I walked in to a bank and opened an account out of curiosity...I registered a company over a lawyer and never used it for 14 years after that LOL...thats freedom...dont be jelly :thumbsup

communism failed because of the leaders and of course western pressure...we did not print money like you guys, we did not cheat and loan shark...communism is not inherently evil and does not prevent private business...99% of all people are surprisingly free, like in my example where I just opened up a shop and nobody gave me any shit...you could do shit...just build a house...ask nobody...no gay permits...just build that shit...

I can only speak for yugoslavia, communism worked and it is not up for debate...it was not perfect, I am not saying there were not problems, but the people lived much much better than in capitalism and "democracy" today...

Unemployed gibbmedats? Lmao

Let's see, your favorite gfy poster (Paul Markham) is an unemployed gibbmedat marriage immigrant. I'm a self employed successful master of the w3bz.

Wanna compare traffic stats?

Amazon wanna go to NY, better Gibb the residents dat jobs. Or kick rocks. Simple.

The same people arguing against 25,000 jobs and BILLIONS in tax revenue are the same people that cheered on Obama with the longest, slowest and most anemic economic recovery ever, stagnant wage growth, horrible jobs numbers, lowest workforce participation rate ever and who said "those jobs aren't coming back", mocking Trump for saying he'd create jobs etc and then hate Trump for undoing crippling regs on day 1, having a roaring economy, becoming the worlds largest oil producer, having all time low unemployment numbers, rapidly growing manufacturing jobs etc. and then say "Obama did it".

How much do you have to really hate your country to defend failure and hate success?

Are you retarded? If you work, pay into the system and then retire, you are not on the gibbs lol.

Be honest - How many people do you know that have for 2 and 3 generations been on the dole? Those are the gibbmedats.

Just so that I understand this conversation.

A. We're in a forum for pornographers and smut peddlers.
B. There are actually people here arguing for socialism/communism

I'll admit that I want full on government censorship of porn to the point that society becomes a puritan hell hole of horny Amish masturbators. But this is because I know that in such environments the value of a fuck video goes through the roof.

However, the last thing I want is a government system that controls the market place. Without an open market producing and selling smut becomes a very very dangerous occupation.

So although I would love censorship there's no way that I can ever support socialism. At least with the Mafia if you shut your mouth and did your job you could make money and keep from getting killed. ....

But with socialism you might as well just kill yourself.

Yeah so cash based pirating is a way to fuel an economy in the 21st century :1orglaugh

I mean come on dude...

Yeah I wish I could stuff my pockets full of ill gotten gains but that's not really a way to run an economy and not overall representative of how communism works :1orglaugh