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Democrat Socialist Ocasio-Cortez offers up a double dip of cluelessness on Amazon botch

Torn between whether to order cookie dough or rocky road? No matter. Newly minted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez followed up yesterday’s laugh-a-minute disquisition on how New York City could spend the $3 billion it would somehow gain access to by not offering a tax break to Amazon with a scoop of example.

For those who missed it, AOC said of her “victory” over “corporate greed,” by helping to skunk the deal with Amazon:

You know, I think it’s really important that we understand that we need to invest in our economy, but we need to invest in our people, and to give away $3 billion to a company that has a history of worker exploitation that’s paying below what the cost of New York City is not acceptable for us. …

What’s great is that our economy, our local economy, is already growing. So I firmly believe that if we want to take that $3 billion dollars that we were willing to give to Amazon and invest it in our local community, we can do that. We can make those jobs. We can make 25,000 jobs. But we don’t have to give away and allow our subway system to crumble so that Amazon essentially owns a part of New York City. We can create 25,000 jobs with Mom-and-Pops; we can create 25,ooo jobs with companies that are willing to come to the table, but we should not be giving away our infrastructure, our subway system, our schools, our teachers’ salaries, our firefighters’ budgets. …

A number of people, including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, pointed out the glaring error in Ocasio-Cortez’s thinking. In a nutshell there is no $3 billion floating around in the ether that New York can now seize and spend on infrastructure or anything else. The $3 billion was simply an amount that Amazon would have saved in taxes as an incentive  to go ahead with its plans to open a satellite headquarters in New York.

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A few of AOC’s critics used sarcasm to highlight her tenuous grasp on the economic reality of the Amazon kerfuffle. One of these, a Twitter user who goes by the handle Boomieleaks, brought out Ocasio-Cortez’s priceless followup to her original comments:

In July 2018, long before her election to the House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she was the “future of the Democratic Party.” Let’s all cross our fingers and toes that he was right.

Cross-posted with Liberty Unyielding

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