Do the math: 25,000 jobs times a likely $50,000/year or more average income (wages would need to be higher in New York, and Amazon no doubt knew this), and you get $1.25 BILLION injected into the local economy, year after year after year, All those people rent or buy houses. They buy cars. They go out to eat. They pay local and State taxes.
I have argued, and continue to believe, that the corpotmrate tax rate should be ZERO. Why? Because they are being double taxed. They pay taxes as s corporation, then again as individuals. Once is enough. The healthier corporations are, the easier it is to be in business and do business, the more jobs and the more prosperity.
This is simple, and should be well beyond the need for explanation.
That is the other thing about boxes of rocks: they don’t pretend to listen.