Sandy-O said something like: “There are so many better things that this $3B could have been spent on, such as education …”

This is really a profound level of ignorance. The plan, for the future, was that Amazon was going to pay a large amount of taxes instead of a huge amount of taxes; and that savings to Amazon amounted to $3B. All contingent on Amazon actually coming to NY.

As de Blasio said, “There is no $3B.”

One of the commenters said that while Sandy-O may have taken an economics course, her major was IR, International Relations.

And now I’ll have a double mug of hemlock tea to go with my arsenic-buttered toast, please.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/remodeling-america-modern-day-jacobins/

Please see this post of mine on Robespierre and the tyranny of “virtue.”

The Left is more and more resembling the French Revolution of 1793, whose early rebels included Lafayette and others who sought to emulate the American Revolution. That of course ended with Robespierre and the mindless slaughter of tens of thousands of the bourgeoisie, including killing forcibly assembled throngs of French men and women with cannon grapeshot because the guillotines could not keep up.

The ascendancy of AOC, Omar and the like is a similar shift. They intend to kill us figuratively and literally, by GND, socialism’s obscene excesses, and stuff and nonsense. The Liebermans and Humphreys are long gone; the Pelosis and Schumers are trying to stay in the lead lest they too get overrun by the raging, racing mob, like a tsunami, behind them, a tsunami of their own creation.

Do I have to teach you your own principles? –Manju

Tell it, Manju. It’s hard to know which side is being stupider on this. But this is where excess taxation and deficits lead — to negotiations in which only power and dollars talk, the principles left long ago.

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Meanwhile, from Artfldgr:

Carolyn Maloney (D) Slams Ocasio-Cortez’s Opposition to Amazon: ‘Now We Are Protesting Jobs?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=nnVS-Zah54k

Thanks for the link, Artfl.

Especially since “Donkey Chompers” (great appellation, Deco! She comes close to being horse-faced in fact) managed to winkle Ms. Maloney’s constuency right out of their crack at all those jobs. (IF in fact that is the case. I’m taking her word for it.)

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Tax breaks as incentives for businesses to operate in locales offering them:

Communities of all sizes are gung-ho to offer tax breaks in order to get businesses to open up operations in their towns. Sometimes it works out well, but often enough it just creates problems. Still, if in the long run the community is ahead financially, whether as a jurisdiction benefitting from increased tax revenue OR, more importantly, as individuals in the community improve their health — financial, emotional, or physical — because of the new operation, with the rest of the community not unhappy about it, then I don’t see a problem with it in today’s real world.

The simple reason for not offering tax breaks to businesses already in operation in the district is simply that there’s no need to offer incentives to get them to locate there — as is obvious. The taxing authority, however, should feel itself incentivized to decrease, or at least not to increase, the tax burden on resident business; and also on the individuals in the jurisdiction. Lest these concerns and people go elsewhere, as is notably happening in my Great-Frog-forsaken state of ILL-inois. (There are many people protesting our state govt.’s policies that are driving away businesses and residents … and taking their dough with them, thus diminishing the tax base.)
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Personally, I still believe there are other ways to pay for the necessary-and-proper operations of government than through taxation, and I include tariffs in that. I won’t get into here, though. It’s certainly not going to happen in our lifetimes, and likely not in the next millenium. But it’s also the Holy Grail of true libertarianism, and one of the things we all should be supporting and, depending on our circumstances and personal proclivities, working toward.

We don’t have any closet-conservatives (pretending to be centrists) pointing to open-conservatives, making threats, and then delivering conservative policies.
What we seem to have instead are centrists pretending to be conservatives, and threatening us with real ones, then delivering socialist policies.

“Thou shalt not covet” is a pretty old recognition of human nature.

The Commandments also note humanity’s endemic problem with “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”

Recent examples abound; we’ll see how this latest one plays out.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/two_nigerian_immigrants_to_be_charged_for_jussie_smollett_hate_crime.html)