by Aaron Simon 
After over 200 U.S. city governments vetted the world’s richest man, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to plop his tech goliath’s HQ2 in their territory, Bezos picks Long Island City, Queens and Crystal City, Virginia as the two “winners.”
His Excellency, Andrew ‘Amazon’ Cuomo is offering state subsidies to the tune of $1.5 billionto gain what is promised to be 25,000 new jobs paying $150,000 per year on…
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Curious as to people’s thoughts on Cuomo’s recent Op-Ed on this matter: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/op-ed-governor-andrew-m-cuomo