Kansas

Maxheader

(4,399 posts) Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:20 PM Jan 2018

HEY Brownbutt!!!

Heres all the cities that amazon might build their new facilities at..
Hows come kansaaas isn't in the list browny? After giving all your
business buddies tax cuts to improve the state for outside
investment? Where is all that new business brownbutt? Good
Lord!! After sucking up the funds to properly educate
out kids...run rip-shod over medicaid..prevent proper care
for Kansaas citizens...and we ain't got nothing out of it..
do you hear me brownback?

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Montgomery County, MD
Nashville, TN
Newark, NJ
New York City, NY
Northern Virginia, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh, NC
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.

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HEY Brownbutt!!! (Original Post) Maxheader Jan 2018 OP

Be glad it's not. It's a scam; Amazon will build wherever The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #1

No talent base lapfog_1 Jan 2018 #2

Howdy Maxheader Jan 2018 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(121,412 posts)

1. Be glad it's not. It's a scam; Amazon will build wherever

Reply to Maxheader (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:31 PM

Jan 2018

they get the most generous tax incentives.

“Something is deeply wrong with our economy & democracy when local governments offer up their tax base to a corporation worth over $500 billion,” Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison wrote on Twitter after the news broke.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/18/amazon-headquarters-shortlist It's no better than rich sports team owners threatening to move their teams if cities don't extort taxes from their citizens to pay for them. Minneapolis didn't make the cut, either, and I'm glad, since we just got well and truly gouged for a new Vikings stadium.

lapfog_1

(30,231 posts)

2. No talent base

Reply to Maxheader (Original post)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:56 PM

Jan 2018

even if it was only a call center.

BTW, born and raised in Kansas (Jayhawk!)...

Left to follow my career in high tech back in 1983 (first to Colorado then to California).

Maxheader

(4,399 posts)

3. Howdy

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:28 AM

Jan 2018

Raised on a farm in n. central ks. Been in and out
of the state due to different jobs. But always came
back. Very much my state will always love it...yeah!
go hawks!!

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