The money is absolutely real, and the point is that NYC has what Amazon wants, Amazon does not need corporate subsidies, and that NYC should be leveraging its t

The money is absolutely real, and the point is that NYC has what Amazon wants, Amazon does not need corporate subsidies, and that NYC should be leveraging its talent pool and thriving economy in order to generate more revenue for the city. Cuomo's incompetence left $3bn in revenue on the table. Furthermore, representing your constituents is not "populism". Local residents are intimately familiar with how gentrification displaces entire communities considering it happens all the time there. Big business Democrats like Cuomo and DiBlasio are just having a tantrum because they're so seduced by revenue charts that they've completely dissociated from the impact of these decisions on real people.