The companies want to come to New York because they need the young talent. And then the young talent comes to New York because that's where the companies are. That's Amazon. The postscript to the Amazon is the socialists organized against Amazon because it was corporate welfare and killed the project. And we lost thousands of jobs just on pure misguided political ideology. Thank you very much, guys. (35:40–35:52)
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Asserts that opposition from socialists, due to views on corporate welfare, led to the cancellation of the Amazon project.
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