>>I hope that he enjoys his stay.

You ignored the point- which is that the modern rich can up sticks and relocate with relative ease, e.g. if landed with a 70% tax.

>>This Queens native takes great pride in the rejection by the working people of Queens of Amazon's proposed move to Long Island City in Queens, NYC

a) You're not the person missing out on the job, so that's big of you- and

b) At least your citation makes more sense that protestations that the $3B for Amazon now can be spent on other things. But the deal was that Amazon would get a rebate of $3B off anticipated $30B tax- meaning it would only pay $27B. But there is and never was a $3B to spend elsewhere and now there's $0B.

Certainly I have to LOL at reporters who convert this into the irrelevancy that it makes no difference nationally. Yes, but it would have meant $24B for NY that faces a deficit after other wealthy people moved away too.

Was Amazon arrogant? Probably. And in real life, if they simply relocate to Virginia does it change the national economy? No.

But what it does show- again- is how the wealthy behave when crossed. They'll relocate themselves as easily as they offshored millions of blue collar jobs for personal profit.

Meanwhile, perhaps NYers hoping for high paying jobs now know how it felt when insulated coasters shrugged and pointed at lower prices when the industrial interior was eviscerated.