Nah, she’s not right at all.
Yes, taxes are too high. Does that mean that the little guy gets screwed and the big guy gets a sweet deal?
In a way... yes. In a way no. Okay, so why?
This deal was going to wind up giving the state of New York $27 billion dollars in taxation.
Shouldn’t a business that’s going to give that kind of revenue to the state be able to swing some sort of a deal?
How does that hurt the little guy? The little guy’s taxes will be far less likely to be raised if the community they live in is getting tens of billions of revenue from another source.
Don’t forget, that $27 billion was just from the business. The employees of that business would be paying out all sorts of taxes as they conducted commerce in the region. (even if the employee taxation was figured in as part of the $27 billion, that still an amazing amount of money)
The us vs them tactic is way overused.
They should be happy if Walmart wanted to move there.