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Re:Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City by ardit33 on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:03PM (#19120638)
That's right.... nobody is denying that a large company creating jobs, is a bad thing. People are upset for the large subsidies.

the "Do you believe NYC should give 3B+ subsidies to Amazon"

Or, "Do you believe NYC giving 4 times the subsidies to Amazon, compared to D.C., is a good deal?.?

are missing. Put them into the questionnaire, and see how the response rates change.

Re:Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City by benregenspan on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:14PM (#19120685)
And indeed, the full survey results (linked on the bottom of https://harrisx.com/2019/02/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-supp...) show that once they were asked about subsidies, most respondents (and 74% of those with an opinion on the subject) thought they were too high.

(That's without being prompted with the specific $ amount of the subsidies, as far as I can see. If they had mentioned the $4 billion figure, the response might have been even more overwhelming.)

Re:Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:11PM (#19120669)
I would say, of people I've met that voice reluctance over the deal, all of them have been over the issues you mentioned, except the subsidies (i.e. gentrification, housing affordability, oversubscription of public services). I haven't spoken to anyone in person who said anything negative about the subsidies.