It's death by a thousand cuts. If Amazon really needed to expand their HQ and add 50,000 new jobs, they would do so regardless of any tax incentives. By pitting

It's death by a thousand cuts. If Amazon really needed to expand their HQ and add 50,000 new jobs, they would do so regardless of any tax incentives. By pitting cities against one another, Amazon privatizes some of the gain that would have otherwise been public. Repeat a few hundred times in cities around the country and huge sums are being handed over to corporations needlessly.