Open letter from New York's state budget director regarding Amazon's pullout, which he calls a “tremendous loss”, claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI
losing 25,000+ jobs and $27 billion in tax revenue https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... @semil : To each their own, tho as the facts bear out, cannot be argued as a win for NY/NYC/Queens based on this https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... @semil : wow.hard to read this & argue NYC/NY won. http://twitter.com/... Nat Turner / @natsturner : This may be the single best letter I've read. An open letter from the NYS Budget Director regarding the Amazon HQ2 pullout. Must read https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... Mike Maples / @m2jr : This needed to be said. Political loudmouths hurt their constituents. They need to own it and quit hiding behind their BS rhetoric. Open Letter From New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... Ryan Hurst / @rmhrisk : My favorite part “We underestimated the effect of the opposition's distortions and overestimated the intelligence and integrity of local elected officials.” @kievkirby : TRANSLATION: How NY did the heroic thing by rejecting an inhuman, tax-avoiding, slave-driving corporate behemoth that exemplifies everything that's wrong with modern capitalism. Giovanni Jo / @jogiovanni_ : Bull. This was not a math problem, but one of ethics. Leave that Seattle crap of the highest rent and home price increases in the country where it is. Not to mention 4x Uber surge pricing all day long. Russ Laraway / @ral1 : The Amazon HQ2 situation is a great example of just how little our representatives actually represent our interests. 70% of New Yorkers supported this, and now 20-40K jobs gone. Your reps - D&R alike - serve their interests & those of their financiers. Not yours. http://twitter.com/... Venky Ganesan / @venkyganesan : pretty amazing letter from the budget director of New York State. Truly appreciate the fact that there are amazing people who chose to do public service - people like that are the real heroes - https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... Renee DiResta / @noupside : This one sentence sums up politics today: “They were all for it before Twitter convinced them to be against it.” This is a fascinating read. https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc : Not sure how many pundits talking about Amazon even read the deal or where it was going. $500+ million of the deal was *capital grants.* $2.5 billion in tax breaks. It's fair to ask why we don't invest the capital for public use, + why we don't give working people a tax break. https://twitter.com/... Adam Nash / @adamnash : “In my 23 years in the State Capitol, three as Budget Director, Amazon was the single greatest economic development opportunity we have had.” https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : New York state's budget director points how badly the city screwed itself by allowing false narratives on social media derail Amazon's HQ2. Amazon was going to get $3B in tax breaks if they created 25K jobs and $27B in revenue for the state. #OwnGoal http://www.governor.ny.gov/... http://twitter.com/...