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Weren't most of the subsidies through the already existing "Excelsior program"?

https://esd.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Excelsior_Overview_20...

I'm just confused about what people want. The program was long derided for creating too few jobs:

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hu...

Now that it's Amazon, it's creating too many jobs and (therefore) costing too much money? I don't support tax subsidies in general, but the program was already signed into law, you can't just change the rules that you set yourself just because you realize in hindsight it's a bad deal. Honestly, the people of NYS elected Cuomo twice, they should have to live with the consequences.




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