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All those taxes not paid by Amazon will have to be paid by someone else, because the services, from roads to hospitals, will surely be used. As per the argumen
by bassman9000 8y ago
All those taxes not paid by Amazon will have to be paid by someone else, because the services, from roads to hospitals, will surely be used.
As per the argument
> the Amazon employees will increase tax revenue
Will they? When every and each of their meals is subsidized? Where their transportation, their gym membership, even their kids' school is paid for? And Amazon pays almost nothing in taxes itself [0]
So, yeah, it's a subsidy, maybe not in cash, but in free city services.
[0] https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-2017-gets-789-million-windfall-from-new-tax-law/ https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...
- manfredo 8y agoSofteware development isn't exactly heavy industry. It's not known for incurring significant burden on government services. Not to mention, the demographics that disproportionately make up tech companies (younger wealthier people, with higher rates of childlessness) tend to contribute a lot more in taxes than they consume. Remember, even if Amazon itself is paying less corporate taxes, their employees are still paying state and local taxes.