THIS BABY DOESN’T OWE ANYONE ANY GOD DAMN EXCUSES FOR BEING A BABY.

I Z what you did there.

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Well I do know some places will take beer bottles and wash and reuse them. They used to do this at the Pacifico brewery in Mazatlan, MX. You buy a case and return the bottles and the next case was half priced or something like that.

Some people are afraid that their drinking water may be contaminated. You think it’s unlikely and then you get Flint Michigan.

This is what I have said for years. I call it “pre-cycle”. In other words, think about usage before hand and then you might reduce what has to be recycled.

The entirety of the article is based on how bottle-caps are non-recyclable, yet you should recycle them, anyway.

It doesn’t lessen the wage, it helps the restaurant pay that wage. If you do it the way some places in Seattle do, the service charge is added automatically to the bill which the restaurant takes and splits out to the server, the kitchen and bar. Because this is a service charge and not a “tip” the restaurant can take…

Me too. The sooner this guy is out of the State of Washington the better the State will be. 

Tip pooling can be good or bad depending on how it’s managed. I know a lot of places in Seattle are pooling tips as a means to lessen the increases in minimum wage for back of house staff. In many cases they include a “service” charge which is then distributed to various positions including the server, kitchen and bar…

It seems a bit counter intuitive to say on the one hand, we don’t want to give Amazon these tax breaks but their welcome to come here without them and then turn around and say but...gentrification. Either Amazon coming to NYC is a good thing or a bad thing. If it’s a bad thing because of gentrification then it doesn’t…

How is it a bad deal when it appears that NY will get far more tax dollars than they put in?

Even if the $27B is tied to 40K workers, you can scale that down, 25K workers would result in $17B in tax revenue (assuming a linear calculation).

While I understand you don’t get tax revenue day 1, Amazon will also not get $3B on day one. And even if we take your low-ball estimate of $3B that would suggest it is revenue neutral to NY.

Allowing HQ2 a practically free ride isn’t going to be compensated for by 25,000 jobs no matter how high paying.

You really didn’t add anything to the conversation. 

You don’t seem to understand how tax credits work. When Amazon hires someone they take a tax credit. There are no (additional) taxes to pay if they don’t hire someone. There is no money NYC is handing Amazon or that Amazon is taking from NYC. The city and state will assess Amazon whatever their current tax structure…

News report after news report explains clearly how corporations are marching towards eliminating payroll, and not creating new jobs with this newfound ability.

With so many people getting put out of work who is going to pay for that free access to healthcare and education?

Basically, if your job is to repetitively analyze data and make a judgement based on a set of criteria, you’re going to be automated.