AOC, Sanders Say I Told You So, As Amazon Comes to NYC With No Taxpayer Funded Giveaways
December 9th 2019
Bernie Sanders at a rally in New Orleans, Louisiana (Nick Solari)
By hankg (of the Daily Kos community)
Amazon signed a lease for 335,000 square feet in the Hudson Yards neighborhood in NYC, enough space for more than 1,500 workers. So Amazon is coming to NYC without $3 billion of incentives paid for by NYC and NY state taxpayers, no publicly financed helipad for Jeff Bezos, no Queens residents or small businesses being pushed out, no neighborhoods destroyed (Hudson Yards is an already existing development on the Manhattan waterfront).
Facebook Inc. also leased more than 1.5 million square feet and is looking for 700,000 more square feet. Google is also in the midst of a major expansion in the city, adding thousands of employees in coming years.
Amazing what Progressives can accomplish when they stand up to corporate extortion.
There was pushback that the number of jobs added by Amazon was not as much as the number promised in the Queens deal. AOC responded:
Posted with permission