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Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 10-28-2014 08:59 AM
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/10/28/amazon-to-open-facility-in-illinois-hire-1000-employees-in-state/?intcmp=HPBucket
Let the bidding begin!!!!
They have not decided on a location yet. Can you say tax breaks.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - DoubleHuskie84 - 10-28-2014 10:13 PM
Wow, a business moving into Illinois? Your head must be exploding!
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - BleedsHuskieRed - 10-29-2014 06:50 PM
Will be looking forward to this in my next career move.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 10-30-2014 08:12 AM
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20141029/BLOGS10/141029770/enough-with-the-corporate-handouts-mr-quinn?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
More to come. Quinn and Durbin wanted the announcement prior to the election so dumb asses would vote for them. Then after the election, we will find out how much tax incentives Illinois gave to Amazon. In the end, Taxpayers of the state of Illinois lose.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - Huskie_Jon - 10-30-2014 11:57 AM
(10-28-2014 10:13 PM)DoubleHuskie84 Wrote: Wow, a business moving into Illinois? Your head must be exploding!
Are you agreeing with Fox News?
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU05 - 10-30-2014 01:43 PM
Anyone now disagree that Big Government and Big Business ars on the same side. Anyone? The power of the state has to be limited. They line the pockets of these guys continually. Big gov and Big Biz are NOT opposed to anything that lines their pockets. Its not just the State of IL its 45 out of 50 states and the Feds. It does not end. BTW it could be worse like subsiding a football stadium for multi millionaires.
I want to hear the Big Government boosters defend these actions.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - Max Power - 10-30-2014 03:54 PM
In this thread:
Anti-tax Republicans are FURIOUS that businesses bringing jobs to Illinois are getting tax breaks!
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU05 - 10-30-2014 05:09 PM
In this thread the ones who decry corporate welfare are thrilled tax dollars are going to billionaires. Hypocrisy is flying high.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 10-30-2014 08:25 PM
no i hate that quinn and durbin give tax breaks to bring jobs but all othwr illinois taxpayers pay. lwts have a pro business environment ao that ALL businesses benegit and cewatw jobs. quinn and durbin picking winners and losets
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - toddjnsn - 10-31-2014 02:08 PM
Quote:They have not decided on a location yet. Can you say tax breaks.
To DeKalb? Okay, THAT explains the $138 million athletic re-construction at NIU! :)
In Michigan, they'd give tax breaks to film companies shooting movies out here. Ben Affleck spoke to the MSU Spartan football team on their practice field while they were shooting Batman vs Superman a bit outside Lansing. Funny how college football's the actual super heroes. :)
Anyway, I think it's a good idea to in other ways, pump more Circulation into an economy. But at the same time, yeah, you don't want to Ride off that. It's good for a boost, or to save an economy/environment (see DETROIT). Here in Grand Rapids, how did our downtown go from dirty & not good in the mid-90s to VERY GOOD now? Tax breaks to open up shop down here. Cleaned it right up in 10 years. It's awesome now. It was Temporary.
But you don't want that to be your Staple. You only want that as a testosterone injection, IMO.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU007 - 10-31-2014 02:14 PM
(10-30-2014 08:25 PM)klake87 Wrote: no i hate that quinn and durbin give tax breaks to bring jobs but all othwr illinois taxpayers pay. lwts have a pro business environment ao that ALL businesses benegit and cewatw jobs. quinn and durbin picking winners and losets
Pretty sure that happens in every state. The previous company I worked for got tax breaks to keep their offices in Cincinnati. Not that I like it.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU007 - 10-31-2014 02:14 PM
(10-30-2014 08:25 PM)klake87 Wrote: no i hate that quinn and durbin give tax breaks to bring jobs but all othwr illinois taxpayers pay. lwts have a pro business environment ao that ALL businesses benegit and cewatw jobs. quinn and durbin picking winners and losets
Pretty sure that happens in every state. The previous company I worked for got tax breaks to keep their offices in Cincinnati. Not that I like it.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - Max Power - 11-03-2014 10:31 AM
I'd be all for lowering the taxes on everyone if we didn't need the revenue. Unfortunately we need the revenue. Bruce Rauner's plan is to lower the income tax and replace it with a sales tax which 1. Shifts the tax burden from the rich to the poor and working class because people living paycheck to paycheck would get taxed on most of their income while billionaires like Rauner who ship their $$$ to the Caymans would get taxed on a very small amount of their income, and 2. Will still bring in far less revenue.
So, given that we need the revenue, it's better to cut taxes of companies willing to bring jobs to Illinois instead of lowering them for everyone, or allowing that company to go to Ohio instead because they're offering a better deal. We'll be collecting tax dollars from the employees of that company and from the company itself once its tax breaks run out anyway.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - BarsemaBone2 - 11-03-2014 10:47 AM
(10-31-2014 02:14 PM)NIU007 Wrote:(10-30-2014 08:25 PM)klake87 Wrote: no i hate that quinn and durbin give tax breaks to bring jobs but all othwr illinois taxpayers pay. lwts have a pro business environment ao that ALL businesses benegit and cewatw jobs. quinn and durbin picking winners and losets
Pretty sure that happens in every state. The previous company I worked for got tax breaks to keep their offices in Cincinnati. Not that I like it.
It hasn't been said, but that's probably the reason Walgreens kept their HQ in Deerfield. There was no other reason for them not to move it to Europe. Caterpillar's CEO has repeatedly said that the business environment in Illinois is one of the worst in the country and people have been begging him to move for a while now.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - Max Power - 11-03-2014 10:53 AM
The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 11-03-2014 11:20 AM
(11-03-2014 10:53 AM)Max Power Wrote: The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
The OSHA is not doing their job.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU007 - 11-03-2014 11:53 AM
(11-03-2014 11:20 AM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 10:53 AM)Max Power Wrote: The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
The OSHA is not doing their job.
I bet Cat doesn't make their job any easier....
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 11-03-2014 12:00 PM
(11-03-2014 11:53 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(11-03-2014 11:20 AM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 10:53 AM)Max Power Wrote: The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
The OSHA is not doing their job.
I bet Cat doesn't make their job any easier....
Do you have proof of that? CAT is probably union shop and the union stewards are pretty active in union shops. The would file a grievance pretty fast.
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - NIU007 - 11-03-2014 12:29 PM
(11-03-2014 12:00 PM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 11:53 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(11-03-2014 11:20 AM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 10:53 AM)Max Power Wrote: The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
The OSHA is not doing their job.
I bet Cat doesn't make their job any easier....
Do you have proof of that? CAT is probably union shop and the union stewards are pretty active in union shops. The would file a grievance pretty fast.
Do you have proof OSHA isn't doing their job?
RE: Amazon to build a facility and hire 1000 employees in illinois - klake87 - 11-03-2014 12:34 PM
(11-03-2014 12:29 PM)NIU007 Wrote:(11-03-2014 12:00 PM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 11:53 AM)NIU007 Wrote:(11-03-2014 11:20 AM)klake87 Wrote:(11-03-2014 10:53 AM)Max Power Wrote: The CAT CEO says that to get more anti workers laws passed so we look like Mississippi. They successfully cut workers comp rights in 2011 and they want to keep cutting. But they aren't going anywhere. Probably billions have been invested into Peoria.
Lose your arm in a machine? Sorry, here's an aspirin, but CAT's got a bottom line to protect!
The OSHA is not doing their job.
I bet Cat doesn't make their job any easier....
Do you have proof of that? CAT is probably union shop and the union stewards are pretty active in union shops. The would file a grievance pretty fast.
Do you have proof OSHA isn't doing their job?
I was responding to Max Powers comment. He feels that CAT is cutting corners on safety. CAT is following the law unless you know otherwise?