Desperate Mayors Compete for Amazon HQ2 

They lost too. The Greeks named a mythological place ruled by women after Amazon, and that was 2,500 years ago.

@@mirzaahmed6589 nosso rio existia antes dos gregos, e estamos dispostos a nomear a floresta inteira se for preciso, nós precisamos daqueles empregos

Within minutes, a man resorted to blowing up a car to make a statement

I found "The Most Dangerous Game" a pretty compelling reason to hunt people

They are WAY too good. Now I wonder if it's a good idea to stand up to ambitious small town politicians...

go tigers!

Ringo Garvin 🤣

I'd settle for the uncut Colombian cocaine.

They gotta be tempted by that bullet train though.

@@davidkanon4093 I don't think the mayor of a small town in Virginia has the power to eminent domain 3,000 miles of railroad to Seattle.

47 Amazon employees didn't like that their human hunts were exposed.

@@mirzaahmed6589 with Amazon's money and his drive... Anything is possible.

...and all the paleo mineral water we can lick off the stalactites...

Pondering if you're setting up yourself to become a hostage is always a good question to ask and one you should always take your sweet time to answer.

That's better for the town, sure. But will it get you votes?

Gosh, why didn't every city in history think of that? Just have normal-sized businesses. [ slaps forehead ]

Yes it does. Marxism. Oh, and the Green Bay (SPIT) Packers.

go tigers

Nope. it STARTED dark.

Darius Thurman oh cool now I got the broken window joke :)

The broken window economic theory was based a french story of a mans window being broken, he pays to have it fixed, the Keynesian sees it as stimulus to the repair man but free marketers make us ponder what the shopkeep could have done with his money, pay debt, hire someone.

Darius Thurman yep! I didn't notice the joke until you brought it up.

Darius Thurman what?

I like the Broken Windows Fallacy as an exhibit of economic thought and how timeless arguments really are. Keynes wasn't even born when Bastiat argued that we shouldn't credulously take the benefits of the glass-repairman and the candlemaker to mean a benefit for all of society. In the same way that Keynes was annoyed by Say's Law, Malthus and Ricardo would argue if a free market would or wouldn't overproduce, lead to persistent unemployment or necessitate government purchases and commands to make the markets clear.

Go Tigers!

Like a budget Zack Galifanakis

But unlike Zack, Austin doesn't have his head up his ass.

It's legal for high ranking members of Amazon to hunt people in your city limits?

I believe you OMGshinyobject. Politicians do this special favoritism all the time, when they SHOULD just lower taxes and minimize regulations for EVERYBODY!

Jesse Ward no I mean my town is shortlisted for the new Amazon hq in Canada

Dude, my town is doing that same bullcrap to get Amazon to come here.

chicago ?

Nanya yeah there was and then you know what happened? We outgrew it kind of like teenagers outgrow cracking voices, acne and raging hormones. And we got so good at it.

@@neomanrex outgrew? No more like outsourced. We still consume all the products we just buy them from someone else.

@@mrstatictunes and your point? There's nothing inherently noble about making your own products. I could make my own chicken sandwiches from scratch. I could grow the grain for the bun, mill it, make dough, cook the dough. I could raise and butcher the chicken. Grow the vegetables. Make my own oil for the mayonaise. It would take a few monthsand close to 1500 dollars. But hey I would have made it myself. Instead I go the the BBQ place down the street and get an amazing pulled chicken sandwich with a beer in 5 minutes for less than 20. THAT is progress. That is trade. That's the end goal of industrialization. I basically have outsourced cooking and farming and baking and cattle raising to OTHER people. Because it would be an inefficient waste of my time. Google word for the day: "Comparative advantage" We worked REALLY hard as a country in horrible conditions for close to a hundred years. Basically American industry is retired. Let the young kids in Indonesia make sneakers. 1. It's far better than rural farming life for them. 2. We get really cheap stuff. 3. It builds infrastructure over time in their country. Just like it did here.

@@neomanrex If you dont see that our infrastructure is suffering because of outsourcing, I dont know what to tell you.

@@mrstatictunes Examples?

Robert J. Simpson What part is that? I missed it and feel left out!?

SpenserRoger the broken windows is Bastiat. I missed the civil war part too.

x2f01mick the Mason Dixon line reference. Essentially saying they are slave owners.

Tranny Bane oh duh. Thanks.

Home Wall I would contend it is funny precisely BECAUSE it is done this way 😂

Nearly a laugh but it's really a cry

Jeff Bezos actually watching this: "Hunting people is overrated. The real victory is keeping them alive and crushing them under your rule."

Michael Reno No........GEAUX TIGERS!!

Someone has to do the job. So, we have to choose among those that are willing to do it.

Politicians are support vandals. When the vandals start stealing stuff or spraying graffiti, politicians just stick their hands out. Graft is good.

And we still couldn't keep GE or Aetna.

Was? Probably still is....

@@mirzaahmed6589 Happy to say I left CT four years ago for sunny San Antonio specifically because of the politics creating such lackluster jobs.

These are not tax cuts, taxes are not going down. They remain at the same level, but the political friends escape it. Corruption for some, and tax increase for the others.

This isn't a tax cut, it's more like a bribe

We already know all the philosophy and empirical history. The statist dummies aren't going to watch this.

Don't forget that sweet sweet healthcare....

Toronto's transit is wretched.

any system that takes tokens blows.

Unless you're old, tokens have been replaced by Presto

I was there two months ago. They absolutely sell tokens. www.ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/Prices/Buying_tickets_tokens_and_passes.jsp You probably live way out in Hamilton or something and don't actually ride the subway.

Epic Tax (Giveaway) Battles of History

Seriously, there is. I have been involved in deals like this. It gets pretty twisted.

Too on-the-nose. Wouldn't be very funny. Now, if he had applied the lip balm ~10 seconds prior when it seemed unrelated, and we caught just the tail-end of the application before he gave his pitch, and then emphasized "ANYTHING" with a slight lip pucker to spread the balm... now THAT would have done it.