And we want businesses to stay and we want businesses to grow and we want businesses to come because that's jobs, that's opportunity, that's growth. Socialism that says we're anti business, we're anti corporate. What they did on the Amazon project that I had coming to Queens, thousands of jobs to open a second headquarters. Socialists were anti business, anti corporate. They killed the Amazon deal, cost us thousands and thousands of jobs. How did that help? It doesn't. And this theory that you can have a socialist city in a democratic capitalist country and that is going to thrive is a non starter. (19:02–19:22)
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