"She added that if New York had $3 billion to give away to Amazon as a part of this deal, it should be able to find the money to pay teachers and fix the subway."
This is the most fucktarded thing I have seen in a long time.... this money was basically all wrapped in tax breaks and incentives that the City did not have to actually pay out of pocket.
I k now handing corporations complete welfare is something BOTH GOP and Dems should be against but this was a means to get a company to build a facility that would spur other economic growth in the area.
We take inexperienced utopian idealists and prop them up on pedastals on both sides of the aisle and get shit like this.
This group could have simply put together a message that we should not hand over billions of tax breaks and get a net negative deal to give one company a building site unless they can prove that there will be a true net positive gain when all factors are considered.