Late last year, and earlier this year, NYC was roiled by the proposed Amazon headquarters for Long Island City that would potentially create thousands of job -- but only if the city and state agreed to tax breaks and virtually no oversight. Amazon balked and pulled the plug on the plan, leading to pundits and others bleating about how opponents to the plan had cost the city jobs, the city was becoming unfriendly to business, blah blah blah.
Oh wait.
Amazon just announced that they are still coming to NYC -- this time to Hudson Yards. And they're doing it without demanding tax breaks or any other give-aways or corporate welfare!
See, Amazon was always planning to come to NYC. The idea that they were doing the city some big favor by opening a headquarters here and needed favors to do so just exposes what a shakedown their original proposal was.
This just proves that you should never give into bullies, never submit to their pressure, because, when you fight back, you prove just how weak they are.
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