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Good. Why do the good people of NYC need to be taxed just so their taxes can be given as corporate welfare to a large corporation that will then come and organize other New Yorkers’ activities in such a way that money is siphoned out of the city?

If we want to create jobs, we don’t need a giant corporation using our tax money to help organize this human activity. We can hire each other for our own local purposes.

If we want to keep NYC rich then we don’t exploit the labor of the local population to send money out of the city.

The biggest US export by far is Dollars, ever since Bretton Woods they are in demand all around the world. We trade them for stuff others make. It has made Americans lazy and fat.

Do you really want jobs? Like race-to-the-bottom Amazon warehouse slave jobs? Is that the goal of humans? No. It’s just fed to them.

Donald Trump said he’ll keep the jobs in this country. Bernie said he’ll keep the money in this country by preventing corporations and billionaires from offshoring it through loopholes.

I know which goal I’d prefer, if I wanted Americans to be the masters and not the slaves. (I happen to believe that money going to poorer areas is good, so I don’t hold that nationalistic position - but if I did, I would want the money to stay, not jobs.)




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