The article is more focused on the opposition to the plans instead of a whole cost benefit analysis of the project. It's a short article and it can't be everyth

The article is more focused on the opposition to the plans instead of a whole cost benefit analysis of the project. It's a short article and it can't be everything. Also it's not like the opposition to it is unreasonable, it probably will benefit the community but it would've been a lot better if Amazon didn't get the tax bonuses and since they were going to build the second HQ somewhere anyway. You have municipalities paying 5b$ for Amazon to do something it was going to do anyway so while the individual location is better off the system as a whole just lost 5b$ in taxes. This really plays into the current trend where Americans feel like these corporations really have outsized power in the US politically and use it to get what they want (e.g. taxes, laws, favorible labor contracts) and as average citizens we have little recourse to do anything about it.