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How is not free market for polities to compete for attractive employers?

• airstrike 8y ago
  Because only one company is benefiting from these tax breaks.
  • chiefalchemist 8y ago
    Yup. You can't tilt the board and say it was "fair". If a given community put out a RFP / RFQ that said, "Here are our assets. Here are something things we might be able and willing to offer...Which of you are interested in coming here?" Perhaps not free market, but certainly closer to fair and less corrupt.
  • endtime 8y ago
    I think you might be viewing it backwards. In this case, Amazon is the only one selling but lots of places were buying.
• dwaltrip 8y ago
  Application of tax policy does not seem like a "market" that local governments should "compete" in. I understand this does happen internationally, between nations. Not that it is a good thing, but seems very difficult to stop. However, at first glance, it seems absurd to me to allow this to occur within a single nation, between the different sub-localities. How does this benefit the US as a whole?