After months of speculation, and a surprise twist worthy of “Survivor” wherein Amazon’s second headquarters was split into two, the company announced Tuesday that Northern Virginia and Queens were the big losers.

The Democratic governors of the Empire State and the Old Dominion State offered up a combined $3 billion in corporate welfare for the split second headquarters. The subsidy deals were less shameless than the goodies offered by my own home state of Maryland, whose Republican governor promised a shocking $8.5 billion in “incentives.”