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17. I know what I would do if I were AAPL

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Feb 25, 2014, 03:10 PM

Feb 2014

I'd not only have contingency plans to cancel AZ and build in another state, but I'd also offer to help pay for any prospective AZ employees to relocate, with the moving contracts being given exclusively to moving companies in the new state.

A tax base of 2000 employees plus the sales taxes lost on what those 2000 employees (not to mention the plant itself!) would be spending each year--even Jan Brewer knows how to use a calculator.

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Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk [View all] n2doc Feb 2014 OP

Now that the dog-whistle has done its job, Brewer can veto the bill safely. Aristus Feb 2014 #1

Precisely. jsr Feb 2014 #3

+1 Auggie Feb 2014 #4

It is already reported on Huffington Post that she will veto it. lostincalifornia Feb 2014 #5

Well, Governor Hagfinger may be evil, but she's not stupid. Aristus Feb 2014 #6

actually, she tends towards the lower end of the scale IQ -wise. ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2014 #8

Right you are. KamaAina Feb 2014 #9

and my friend got a job with the state for that. LittleGirl Feb 2014 #16

Apple, move it to another state that is more enlightened. lostincalifornia Feb 2014 #2

This, from Apple, is excellent TM99 Feb 2014 #7

Of course not all people in Arizona are "unenlightened" lostincalifornia Feb 2014 #11

Just the people they elect to represent them. Bandit Feb 2014 #15

Move the plant whether the Governor signs or vetos the bill because kiranon Feb 2014 #14

"Three state senators who voted for the bill are now asking her to veto it." arcane1 Feb 2014 #10

they are ass holes. if she vetoes it, they can still say they voted for the law in their campaign Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #13

They will play both sides of the fence. They will advertise that they voted for it to the bigots and okaawhatever Feb 2014 #18

Good may more businesses follow suit azurnoir Feb 2014 #12

I know what I would do if I were AAPL DFW Feb 2014 #17

Time to organize boycotts of tourism, companies in Arizona. Coyotl Feb 2014 #19

WooHoo.. you know Brewer will Kill the Ugly Bill! Cha Feb 2014 #20

These ALEC bills will all go down in every state BrotherIvan Feb 2014 #21