Bezos Scores Big-Time In Amazin’ Amazon Deal

Amazon’s $2.5 billion tax subsidy (and Jeff Bezos’ helipad) will indirectly be paid for by New Yorkers like my 88-year-old mom and dad (“Queens Ransom,” Nov. 14).

Their real-estate taxes doubled to $10,000 a year because their $56,000-a-year retirement income made them “too rich” for the STAR tax subsidy for the elderly.

This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans: Republicans attempt tax reductions for everyone. Democrats rail against Walmart, raise taxes on everyone, but subsidize the jobs for super-wealthy elite and liberal enterprises like Amazon and the film and TV industry, leaving the tax tab to the non-elite, like my mom and dad. Joanne Zervos Manhattan

The article “Lefties rip giveaways” is a bit ironic, as the left is known for “giveaways” and “entitlements.” The only difference here is that the giveaways went to Amazon.

The view of the left, especially Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is quite naive and short-sighted.

More than 200 city leaders around the United States and Canada competed for the Amazon deal because they knew it would be an economic boom for their cities.

And for Long Island City, the end result is the same. The Amazon deal will revitalize the area and bring opportunities from which all can benefit. Eileen Corr Manhattan

Amazon is settling in a relatively industrial area in Long Island City. Protesters are angry that this massive complex will cause too many changes in nearby neighborhoods.

Adjustments will have to be made to bolster the transportation systems to handle the workforce, and concessions will have to be made by neighborhoods concerning housing for the influx.

But the disturbing fact is that much of the negotiating was done in extreme secrecy.

It seems only Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio were involved, with little input from neighborhood leaders, businesses or transportation representatives. So much for “transparency.” Robert Lobenstein Brooklyn

Cuomo and de Blasio gave billions in incentives to a trillion-dollar company for 25,000 jobs, when our city’s housing, mass transit, roads, etc. are in horrendous shape and getting worse.

This is a perfect example of how elected officials no longer advocate for the real needs and wants of the people they were sworn to represent.

Instead, they represent big business and the realestate industry without much concern for the effects on everyday people. Barry Brothers Brooklyn

Ethically challenged Cuomo and de Blasio will hand over billions to Amazon, but they bar Walmart from opening stores in the city, which would help its poorer citizens.

We’ve seen from their abuse of residents of public housing that they don’t give a damn.

And public transportation is terrible. But money can be found for Bezos. Jack Lacey Southold

New York state is giving Amazon $48,000 for every job. Maybe New York City should change its nickname to “the Big Subsidizer”? Barry Popik Goshen

Cuomo was just elected for four more years, and the first thing he does is stick it to his loyal supporters by jumping in bed with Amazon.

I hope you all enjoy your transit nightmare, because Cuomo doesn’t give a hoot about you. Tony Fasano Staten Island

Bezos just scored perhaps the biggest corporate-welfare coup in history. Cuomo and de Blasio have put out the welcome mat for a locustlike invasion of skateboarding and bike-riding, uber-liberal yuppies who will ramp up the Big Apple’s gentrification war on affordable housing for poor and working-class New Yorkers.

Though I’m no fan of Gotham’s newbie Democratic Socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I’m in her corner on this issue. James Hyland Beechhurst