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You can't. The question is, and reasonable people can disagree, is whether you want to turn a low-wage neighborhood into a higher-wage one.

That was ****ing awesome.

Virginia is providing about $575 million in “direct incentives” to Amazon, which I believe is basically tax cuts. On top of the personal taxes beaarock mentioned, VA predicts the economic benefit to be around $14 billion over the first 10 years. https://www.vachamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Final-Amazon-Study-120718.pdf

Does anyone want to help Larry? Edit: thank you @bearrock

Your post that I referred to (by quoting it) was that we are talking about warehouse jobs: Your subsequent post was about the economic impact, and sure, I’m inclined to believe your message board analysis and ignore the fact that over a dozen localities were offering 5+ billion dollars in incentives because they probably don’t employ anyone as smart as you on the topic of urban planning. Especially NYC.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today.

This is literally the ISIS playbook.

It’s not trickle down economics (which is a scam). It’s the fact that if you add 25,000 high-paying jobs (but not millionaires), those people are going to buy a lot of **** and generate a lot of economic activity. The people that sell them stuff and services will make more money and themselves buy more ****. And so on and so forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_multiplier_effect?wprov=sfti1

I don’t know what Amazon pays in taxes at the state/local level. I do know that $25 billion is $25 billion. It’s why some bidders, not NYC or NOVA, offered close to $10 billion in incentives.

Correct, instead of 25,000 jobs, they are getting about 1,500. The article AOC tweeted quotes Governor Cuomo, who estimates that NY would have reaped about $25 billion in economic benefits if they got the 25,000 jobs.

This plus stealing generally falling out of favor (analytically) unless your success rate is sky high.

What is her point? NYC actually won, despite offering far less in incentives than others, but then local opposition-supported by AOC-chased them out. So....who ****ing cares?

More details on methods and practices...when you have time. This looks ****ing amazing.

#cardio

Nats still need to add at least one more good arm to then pen. If the Nats improved their horrid 5.66 bullpen ERA to league average, that is worth about 6.5 WAR, which is more than the difference between Rendon and Donaldson.

Evangelicals still lost market share (about 3%) over the past decade, just not as fast as other denominations.

Definitely harming. https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/new-fairfax-county-prosecutor-says-office-wont-prosecute-marijuana-possession/2020/01/02/ab0363a4-2d76-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.html?utm_campaign=afternoon_buzz&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

Congrats for finishing up.

Yes. Yes it is.

End of year update. After I just put a good chunk to my after-tax annual bonus towards my loan, it is now down to $55,000 (from $240k originally in 2014). As noted above, I just recently refinanced it again and got the rate down to 2.3%, so it was hard to justify putting my entire bonus towards it, as I have done for the previous few years. Instead, I paid off all of my other debts except for my house. After another year of payments, I’ll pay this off with a small chunk of my 2020 annual bonus. One more year to go until I get this shackle off.

My poor Operation victim tended to get hurled across the ****ing room, so perhaps this is for the best.

Torts gonna Torts

The Athletic is running down the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. Scherzer is number 90. https://theathletic.com/1457086/2019/12/28/the-baseball-100-no-90-max-scherzer/