Every city offered concessions because only a fool would NOT try to get these jobs. Philly offered $4.6 billion. Newark offered $7 billion. Atlanta offered them their own train! BilldeBlasio and NYGovCuomo made our city better and stronger with this deal.
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When you a high services, high tax rate & high regulation state as NY is, you must pay a significant premium to attract jobs - which they did. Thank their incompetent politicians
They're not bringing in 20,000 workers, they're going to take from the unemployed in New York. It's not that hard to understand.
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