Amazon Is Hiring 1,400 Workers a Day — Any Regrets, AOC?
30th November 2020
Ocasio-Cortez objected to the state’s offer of tax credits to Amazon, the bulk of which would be paid out over a ten-year period conditional on Amazon’s reaching hiring and salary targets. While ad-hoc tax incentives are a sloppy and ineffective means of attracting businesses, the specific policy questions here are less salient than the hostility towards business voiced by Ocasio-Cortez and her coterie.
The state never revoked the tax credits, and Amazon could have proceeded apace. Amazon’s management chose not to because they didn’t want to be in close proximity to lawmakers intent on kneecapping them at every turn.
The city’s unemployment rate now stands at 13.2 percent, nearly double the 6.9 percent national rate.
Democrats aren’t about employment. They don’t want people to be employed. They want people to be dependent on government handouts, handouts controlled by blueneck politicians, handouts in return for dependable Democrat votes.