They must think it will pay off in the long run. Will it? And why all the resistance to tax breaks for others,- small business owners and people who don't won the Washington Post?

Everything Amazon is is everything liberals hate.

Maybe Amazon will become ironically conservative.

Elections have consequences.

Because it is an insiders deal from the get go, a fake competition. More rich Ds getting free stuff from other rich Ds controlling govt purse strings.

D49yx Wrote:
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> Because it is an insiders deal from the get go, a
> fake competition. More rich Ds getting free stuff
> from other rich Ds controlling govt purse strings.


Yep. But not worse than rich R's getting free stuff from other rich R's. Our government (local, state, federal) is controlled by the rich to help the rich. It's been that way from the get go. All governments are like that. What makes America great isn't a government. It sucks as much as most democracies/republics.

The richest man in the world gets a tax break but your taxes have to go up!

Trickle for me, but not for thee!

nxcpt Wrote:
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> Our government (local,
> state, federal) is controlled by the rich to help
> the rich.

+1

Ahh, it's more direct than "trickle down".

It's more like "pass through"...see, new workers getting paid an average of $150k pay taxes on that, DIRECTLY back to the gov...which in turn gets spent as the gov sees fit, either on projects, or more gov workers, or social programs, etc.

You can argue until you're blue in the face whether or not gov spends money correctly, which is not the point. The point is that the money gets to the government directly in form of taxes.

Sure there may be some hop for related "trickle down" but the majority of the pay off in return for concessions is direct tax revenue.

Trickle down economics is not as direct, and some believe, doesn't happen in all cases.

Now, can anyone tell me what the reference to "Bueller" is above, other than it is from the movie of the same name?

It has something to do with something that sounds like "laugher"...

Maybe I'll tell you later if I see people are really trying to figure it out.

WTFF? Wrote:
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> They must think it will pay off in the long run.
> Will it? And why all the resistance to tax breaks
> for others,- small business owners and people who
> don't won the Washington Post?


It’s a way to land good jobs in the state, and Amazon is a 21st century company with a future. This is the kind of stuff you want to attract, as opposed to telling people dumb shit like you’re gonna re-open coal mines or bring back the whaling industry. It might not sit well with the liberal left wing of the party, but at least VA Dems know how to bring in businesses of the future.

Bueller, bueller...??? Wrote:
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> Ahh, it's more direct than "trickle down".
>
> It's more like "pass through"...see, new workers
> getting paid an average of $150k pay taxes on
> that, DIRECTLY back to the gov...which in turn
> gets spent as the gov sees fit, either on
> projects, or more gov workers, or social programs,
> etc.
>
> You can argue until you're blue in the face
> whether or not gov spends money correctly, which
> is not the point. The point is that the money gets
> to the government directly in form of taxes.
>
> Sure there may be some hop for related "trickle
> down" but the majority of the pay off in return
> for concessions is direct tax revenue.
>
> Trickle down economics is not as direct, and some
> believe, doesn't happen in all cases.
>
> Now, can anyone tell me what the reference to
> "Bueller" is above, other than it is from the
> movie of the same name?
>
> It has something to do with something that sounds
> like "laugher"...
>
> Maybe I'll tell you later if I see people are
> really trying to figure it out.


Sadly, you're too stupid to see that your own post supports the premise of 'trickle down'. When new money (in this case, new employees making decent money) becomes available, it is spent on something. Be it housing, groceries, starbucks, lunches, cars or whatever, the new money trickles into the economy. The more money (in this case, higher paid employees) that is available, the more they higher paid employees will buy and spend, 'trickling down' into restaurants, clothing retailers, barristas, bars, theaters, clubs, etc. This requires those establishments to either hire more people or to pay their employees more (because they now have more choices on where to work). Only a blind partisan thinks it's good for government to have more to 'trickle down' but not the private sector. Of course trickle down doesn't happen in all cases, be that with either private or public revenue.

Amazon will not necessarily make Virginia any more progressive. Much to gerry' s dismay.