made, in the form of taxes. they let them keep it as an incentive to come here. but these other politicians are mad because they were counting on that money from amazon for all of their little projects all over the place, all the other stuff. so they punish local new yorkers by taking away 25,000 good jobs because they weren t going to get that tax revenue. amazon was going to keep their hard-earned money. where my going wrong? elizabeth: you have nailed every point. you are on it. i understand the corporate welfare debate. however, 230 cities were also bidding. come to us, we will give you tax breaks. new york was built on tax breaks. your point is well taken. as you ve noted, it wasn t a three billion-dollar cash pile as alexandria ocasio-cortez by the way, they say that she s trying to of the economy. it wasn t a pile of cash they were taking. it was over a ten-year period they would get the breaks, if they hit job targets. to melissa s points, those jobs could have been $3.75