ONE Democrat Star Gets Slammed by Congresswoman from Her Own Party and State

AOC Slammed for Anti-Jobs Position

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is once again in the news (surprise, surprise).  AOC, as she is called, played a significant role in helping run off Amazon in recent weeks.  The huge corporation had awarded New York, NY the prized "2nd HQ" of the company promising many jobs, large amounts of tax revenue, and additional publicity.  AOC and some others began a campaign to call attention to various benefits the city and state promised Amazon if they located at the Big Apple.  AOC argued that benefits given to Amazon constituted $3 Billion of corporate welfare and money that the city and state could use to better education or mass transit in the city.

Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio and Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney were incredulous over AOC and other critics failure to understand how tax credits work. Maloney pointed out that the $3 Billion in tax credits didn't represent that amount of money already in hand that government could just not spend on Amazon.  It was a tax credit against additional revenue that would be raised by creating jobs and doing business. In other words it was money that won't materialize at all for New York, now, because AOC and her allies scared off Amazon.

Maloney couldn't believe a member of Congress chased away a company offering jobs in her own city by protesting investment.  "It used to be we would protest wars. Now we are protesting jobs?"