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Feb 14 2019 02:01PM more by jimmyDee
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Amazon.com Inc abruptly scrapped plans for a new headquarters in New York that could have created 25,000 jobs, blaming opposition from local leaders upset by the nearly $3 billion in incentives promised by state and city politicians.

Here is the math

1) 25,000 jobs 2) $150,000 average salary 3) NYC income tax rate is at least 3% 4) NY state income tax rate would be around 6% 5) NYC sales tax rate is 4.5% 6) NY state sales tax rate is 4% So... 25,000 x 150,000 = 3.75 billion dollars a year in salary. In terms of income tax: NYC would get around 112 million dollars a year. NY state would get around 224 million dollars a year. So, 336 million a year in income tax. Now let's assume people spend 20% of their salary on taxable items. In terms of sales tax: NYC would get around 34 million dollars a year. NY state would get around 30 million dollars a year. So, 64 million a year in income tax. 336 + 64 = 400
      
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Feb 14 2019 02:04PM     link to this

if that were only true, most of the jobs would be 30 grand, and to make up the 3 billion they'd give in incentives, it would take over a decade to make that back
bezos ain't stupid, certainly very lucky
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Feb 14 2019 02:48PM     link to this

you forgot the brooklyn dodgers
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Feb 14 2019 03:16PM     link to this

How Amazon's deal to bring 25,000 jobs to Long Island City will affect LI
The company said it will invest $2.5 billion in New York; it will receive $2.8 billion in state and city tax breaks.

On Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that Amazon will be expanding its operations to the East Coast and The decision, which the online giant said was driven by the region's talent pool and the transportation infrastructure in Queens, will generate jobs with an average salary of more than $150,000.

Amazon said it will invest $2.5 billion. In return, it will receive $2.8 billion in state and city aid. The $1.5 billion incentive package offered by the state is the biggest ever.


https://www.newsday.com/business/ama...nia-1.23361453
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Feb 14 2019 03:19PM     link to this

The company said the avg salary was 150k.


They were investing $2.5 billion. And In return, they were receive $2.8 billion in state and city aid. The incentives were tax breaks only not real money from the tax payers. That is what is key! Keep scaring off business and be ready to become Illinois
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Feb 14 2019 03:32PM     link to this

I just checked my google glow in the dark globe of the U.S.. NY ain’t nowhere near CA so who gives a shit really
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Feb 14 2019 03:37PM     link to this

Yeah Bezos ain't about losing money.,cept to his wife...lmao.
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Feb 14 2019 03:46PM     link to this

Ny and California are the same .damn state's
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Feb 14 2019 03:48PM     link to this

Politicians are not economists and never do the math.

Of course, CA is right there, pushing business out of the state as much as NY.
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Feb 14 2019 03:48PM     link to this

$150K salary is really not that much in the NYC.

We'll take Amazon in LA and let the employees live next to the homeless. They'll never miss Seattle.
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Feb 14 2019 03:55PM     link to this

But same anti business attitude....
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Feb 14 2019 04:44PM     link to this

If you read closer the new headquarters would make property values and cost of living rise beyond the means of the local workers, who would only gain a slight bump in their salary.
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Feb 14 2019 04:57PM     link to this

Yet wall street somehow manages to thrive despite being in NY. Working at Amazon is like working in hell, even the IT workers hate it there and usually burn out by 30. For workers in their fulfillment centers life is a living hell and most of their workers are broken and crippled by 45, if they last that long. It is similar to the type of injuries that workers at meat packing places get, the automation is always pushing you to your limites. They use software to turn people into robots.
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Feb 14 2019 05:46PM     link to this

MuttonDagger...actually OPs numbers are not pulled out of his ass..

New York State Sales Tax is 4.0%
New York City Sales Tax is 8.875%

New York City Income Tax is 2.9-3.8% depending upon income
New York State Income Tax has income rates from 4.0 to 8.82 depending upon income.

If anything, his estimates are low.....





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Feb 14 2019 05:47PM     link to this

The numbers about jobs and salaries are directly from Amazon's information
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Feb 14 2019 05:56PM     link to this

your math is faulty. among other problems, you assume that none of these people would be working in NY if Amazon didn't come to town. that's surely not true. These massive incentives often backfire. Take a look at the Foxconn deal in Wisconsin, among others.
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Feb 14 2019 06:18PM     link to this

"The company said the avg salary was 150k"

Seems legit
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Feb 14 2019 06:38PM     link to this

Amazon was smart to pull out. That was a nut that would have cost them decades of headache
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Feb 14 2019 06:57PM     link to this

Give or take $25 billion in revenue over a decade plus. (Let's say 10 just to be safe)

Some other state like Va will take them, the jobs and the revenue. Paid and insured people are kind of nice to have in your state to push local economy.
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Feb 14 2019 08:58PM     link to this

My numbers are legit, I even went low instead of high. The point is a lot of jobs were coming to NY but politicians messed it all up. I didnt even talk about all of the buisness that would move in to take advantage of Amazon.

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Feb 14 2019 09:20PM     link to this

In the race to crazy, California still has a big lead. New York is trying to catch up.

Saw a NY city councilman on CNBC the other day. He seems to hate Amazon because they are not gonna allow unions.

Bezos did the smart thing here. Go where they are wanted and appreciated.
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Feb 15 2019 09:17AM     link to this

" The incentives were tax breaks only not real money from the tax payers."

Almost as clueless as the guy on a stock msg board (true story) who saw there was a lot of trading and asked "Is it more buyers or more sellers?"
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Feb 15 2019 09:40AM     link to this

Business people don’t do business where it is not worth it. Some liberal politicians would rather have their constituents on welfare instead of working. The tax revenue would have been significant but that doesn’t matter to Communists. They would prefer the Government own everything.
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Feb 15 2019 10:36AM     link to this

There's no fucking way I believe the average salary was going to be $150,000.

The OP may have some other good points, but that figure just can't be right.
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Feb 15 2019 12:45PM     link to this

Okhappy guy I guess you are too fucking lost to get the point of the statement. "The incentives were tax breaks only not real money from the tax payer" if HX had a way to write it down in crayons I would. Just for you!

The 3b was in tax breaks. Not money paid to Amazon from tax payers. NY did not save 3b by saying no to Amazin. Ny would have pulled in more then enough in Taxes to make up for said Tax breaks.

When a Navy ship was in Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock for work. They employed about 30,000 workers. A local college did a study and found that every shipyard worker resulted in SEVEN jobs out in town! That’s all the other folks who jobs are created by, and supported by, the shipyard worker. So AOC didn’t just cost 25,000 jobs, she destroyed atleast
200,000 jobs!
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Feb 15 2019 02:34PM     link to this

Lol, AOC is gonna take that 3 billion dollars Amazon wasn't gonna pay in taxes and use it to give teachers and firefighters pay raises.
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Feb 15 2019 02:48PM     link to this

"The incentives were tax breaks only not real money from the tax payers"

How, exactly, do you imagine these tax breaks are covered? At the expense of services for working Americans. Look around at how Amazon has changed Seattle, destroyed the affordable housing market. They won't be missed.
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Feb 15 2019 02:50PM     link to this

Sure Seeker they made it up
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Feb 15 2019 02:56PM     link to this

Some some facts...

1) They were going to LIC. Its an up and coming area to begin with so real estate was hot before the announcement.
2) Majority of the buildings already exist and they planned to buy and renovate(some already bought).
3) It's a campus. not some shit hole ware house where you pay 12 dollars for some guy to pack boxes over night. Coorpate exes make mid 7 figures, team leaders high 6's, and when you have those kinda salaries from a good amount of people, its very easy to get a high average depending the way you want to twist the numbers(example, 10 people work at my job. I make 500K, they all make 10K, which makes the average almost 60K .
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Feb 15 2019 02:59PM     link to this

The tax breaks are coverd by the massive amount of jobs they give out. Now that Amazon is not coming , NY gets nothing.


You heard of free market capitalism right? Any city can offer and compete for what they think it will be worth to their own market will do so.
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Feb 15 2019 03:42PM     link to this

Let's start over.

New York currently gets NOTHING from Amazon for a potential facility, nor are there 25,000 people earning a living and paying New York taxes. No money for AOC to spend on teachers or anything else....there is NO money yet. Not sure how stupid people can be....AOC...there is NO $3 billion for stupid you to spend.

If Amazon came, they were going to create 25,000 job and they would not be required to pay certain taxes (the $3 billion) for a period of time. New York never had that money and won't for the duration of the agreement. Of course AFTER that time, Amazon will be paying its normal share of taxes.

But New York gets 25,000 jobs, many NEW people coming to the City who will be paying taxes, renting or buying homes, eating in restaurants that pay sales tax, buying goods and services that are taxed. Additional support services like cleaners, restaurants, etc, might need to be added to be able to support the addition of more people who actually have jobs and those businesses pay taxes.

New York doesn't pay ANYTHING and gets a whole bunch of revenue it never had. But hey, politicians don't take economics classes.....
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Feb 15 2019 03:48PM     link to this

2small4porn.

Football stadiums generate minimum wage jobs mostly.

Amazon is saying the average salary will be $150,000.

Unemployment rate in New York City is currently at around 4.0%

This was not a distribution center...this was a second corporate headquarters....

New York whiffed on a tech company moving tech and white collar jobs into their city....not minimum wage low skilled positions.

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Feb 15 2019 03:52PM     link to this

The sad part is that AOC has a degree in Economics! I'm not kidding I checked out her background. And she is actually quite intelligent (graduated cum laude) so go figure how someone that smart could be so dumb. I guess when you become a politician you get a free lobotomy.
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Feb 15 2019 04:03PM     link to this

Either Boston University should have their accreditation revoked or she wasn't paying attention to anything she learned in class....or her instructors are as stupid as she is....
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I gotz some Fromunda for you my man
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That’s not Fromunda......
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Charlie Munger on HQ2: Driving the rich people out is pretty dumb if you're a state or a city'
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