No. There is no discussion, the answer is absolutely no. NYC is not PAYING 5 billion dollars. they are simply not taxing it, therefor you can not say 'what e

No. There is no discussion, the answer is absolutely no. NYC is not PAYING 5 billion dollars. they are simply not taxing it, therefor you can not say 'what else could they have used this money on instead'. Its like me hosting a website for many charging 100$, and one person comes to me and says they will pay me 0$ but do other stuff, but otherwise they will not use my services. I can not say 'gee, if I charged them 100$ I could do these other things with the money', because I am not paying them 100$ to use my site.