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[Ken]

"Most economists" and "some experts" can both be true.

Thanks for proving my point? It's not exactly the super-clear OMG NYC TOOK A MASSIVE BLOW picture that you both want to paint here. 

Please quote me where I said NYC would take a massive blow. 

If you don't want Amazon given the use of public money, I support that. If you don't want it because you don't think there will be benefit, I'm here to tell you that's 100% wrong. I have seen it in the economics of my own city. You know why Facebook and Google built in Seattle? Amazon talent.

More towards Lee, but I assume that's mostly because he loathes NYC and looks for any reason to shit on it. 

And yes, my issue is with the public money. Of course there are benefits when a large corporation moves in, we just don't need to pay them for the privilege. 

To your point, Microsoft was already established in Seattle. Much how like there are countless large corporations already established in NYC. We'll be fine.

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Are we arguing that companies shouldn't receive benefits from state and local governments for bringing job opportunities to their regions?  Because you obviously know that happens all the time right?  Every state and nearly every big city has an EDO that negotiates these moves and it is BIG money for the people that do it.

Doesn't make it right. We don't need to spend the money here, other businesses will come. As I stated before Google is already doing so for 12K positions without any need for NYC tax incentives.