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It's anti-competitive against companies too small to pull this type of stunt though. It feels wrong to have everyone playing by different rules. Why should my
by arcticfox 8y ago
It's anti-competitive against companies too small to pull this type of stunt though.
It feels wrong to have everyone playing by different rules. Why should my small business across the street pay for Amazon's public services because they're able to make every city in the country race to the bottom?
- kodablah 8y agoWhy should you pay more than the person getting the bulk discount for buying more items at a time? Why should you pay more than the person that negotiated the better car deal? That's what's happening here, a negotiated bulk discount. You can argue negotiations and discounts are unfair, but I'd argue it's unfair to outlaw conditional discounts at this high of a level. And even if you and the majority of your peers believe it is unfair, you can only vote in officials that agree, but luckily those in other communities than you can disagree about fairness and have it their way too.
- mijamo 8y agoExcept that the law is not supposed to be a car deal but supposed to be the same for all actors. Or do you also think you should be able to pay to ignore all laws in general? If I follow your logic, I think a fair tool for cities and state should be the possibility to have tariffs for everything coming from outside the city/state. So now to attract Amazon not only can you say "if you come here you won't pay tax" but more importantly you can say "if you DON'T come here we will tax 50% of every sale you make in our city". Now suddenly I think many people here would not sound so keen on the idea.