Open Thread For September 16, 2017
Officials: Amazon Is Delaware’s Powerball Lottery Ticket. With, IMHO, just about as much chance of cashing in. BTW, it’s ‘too early to talk incentives’:
The company’s guidance to potential suitors specifically calls on cities and states to detail the types and amounts of incentives they can fork over — even if that means passing new laws to create a bigger pile of money.
This company represents the worst of American business. They do want to drive everybody else out. So let’s give them everything they want in order to do that? I don’t want them here.
Army Dumps Immigrant Recruits. And, yes, a Justice Department attorney lied about their status. What a disgrace.
Court: Sessions Can’t Cut Off Grant Money To Sanctuary Cities. I think Sessions is on his way out.
Calling All Attorneys: Was Arpaio Pardon Illegal? This brief makes a compelling case, IMHO.
Trump Elections Commission Has…An E-Mail Scandal? Maybe King Cheeto will put Wikileaks right on it.
What do you want to talk about?
Amazon is playing the Corporate Welfare game, you know, the one that never works for the state or city that “wins” the game. I don’t want them here either, Jeff Bezos pictures himself ruling the world, a sort of capitalist Putin if you will. Would love to see Sessions gone, but as long as he’s up on his brown nosing and spittle licking game it will not happen, Trump need’s abuse targets that can take it and beg for more.
My thinking is that Sessions’ dream is/was to chase out the immigrants and restore segregation to the extent it’s possible.
His dreams are going down. No reason for him to stay and take the abuse.
Corporate “Welfare” is Delaware lawmakers and policymakers crime perpetrated on Delaware’s taxpayers.
Corporate “Extortion” is a corporate criminal conspiracy against those same taxpayers in collusion with politicians.
Neither of these criminal activities are permitted in other industrialized, capitalist countries (BECAUSE IT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE ECONOMY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD)
At the end of this extravagant meal the check is left to be paid by the poor, elderly, middle-class, small business community without so much as a thank you.
Representative John Kowalko
Again, even before they offer all the money delaware has, how much will be spent on this pipe dream? Like stated, it’s Delaware’s powerball. If you spend a buck 2-3 times a year no biggie. You do it every day you’re a moron.
“… even if that means passing new laws to create a bigger pile of money (for Amazon).”
Some state’s taxpayers are about to get raped.
Don’t forget. Even absent a ‘pile of money’, Delaware changed its laws to legalize usury in order to attract the credit card banks here. Who knows what the corporate lawyers could conjure up to place Amazon even more above the law than it already is.
You know, with our ‘state of the art’ business-friendly Court of Chancery. I hear that David Swayze now wears a drool bib wherever he goes.
Let’s not forget the Delaware “Competes” act and “innovates” act that have cost to state over $80 million in corporate tax cuts with absolutely no job creation or preservation resulting. Despite the erroneous reporting in the News Journal that these giveaways of needed revenue facilitated the alleged “win” with the DuPont merger. Total layoffs of 1700 research positions by DuPont remain gone and not recoverable through either of these “reform” bills. This is a matter of public record that appeared in the NJ interview with Ed Breen (his own words can be found in the papers recent archives). Crediting the spinoffs as a victory for this ongoing economic insanity policy is also a deliberately deceptive distortion of reality. The preponderance of actual jobs (formerly in Delaware) well over 350 have traveled to Iowa and Michigan while the 40 or 50 headquarter jobs will remain here as our reward for the $80 million in corporate welfare donations and not even including the cash grants to DuPont, Chemours et. al. Can you spell Pyrrhic victory class?
I will have a booth on the Green at Community day tomorrow and welcome any and all Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Corporate execs, corporate biased legislators of either party who wish to debate/discuss their point of view. Spot number 308 outside Mitchell Hall.
Representative John Kowalko
Bet we could land the Amazon HQ if we offered Jeff Bezos a Senate seat, cutting out the middle man as it were.
In terms of what Amazon is seeking, the Claymont site has many pluses.
Given what we’re up against in the region, let’s forget about the economic incentives and give Bezos a spreadsheet that shows how much lower property taxes, etc., would be in Delaware than anywhere else in the Philly metro area?
If comparative economics won’t work, lets appeal to his ego.
We can rename Claymont as Bezos City.
Corporate whores as we are, let’s rename the state as well.
Bezos City, Amazonia 19703 just might play well.