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Amazon's Deal or No Deal
Charlie Herman, WNYC News business and culture editor , talks about Amazon's expansion in Long Island City. Plus, Jimmy Van Bramer, NYC City Council Member (26th Queens), talks about his opposition to the Amazon deal.
"The Governor and the Mayor have conspired with Jeff Bezos to essentially give away the store. Nearly 3 billion dollars in giveaways and tax breaks and subsidies for literally the wealthiest man in the world," says @JimmyVanBramer on #AmazonHQ2.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 14, 2018And listeners shared their thoughts:
Want to see what will happen to housing availability and costs? Look at San Francisco and the Bay Area— completely unaffordable for low-wage workers and people on fixed incomes. Look at the Austin area with Dell, Apple and other tech companies— rents and housing prices higher.
— Kiskadee (@Kiskadee7) November 14, 2018There is no conscionable reason to give billions of dollars of public money to a corporation with a market cap that reached $1 trillion at the end of the summer. Amazon's labor practices are garbage. We don't trust them. We don't want them.
— Bɪʟʟʏ Kᴇᴇɴʟʏ (@billykeenly) November 14, 2018@WNYC@JimmyVanBramer@BrianLehrer Let's be clear, the $2.5 billion doesn't exist yet! The tax revenue to be collected is $13.5 billion and that amount is not be given, but rather would not be collected. Please understand how subsidies work.
— Emil Skandul (@Emilskandul) November 14, 2018