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What a terrible headline. In this case "the same" refers not to the "beauty contest" but to locating offices in an already well-established city. Garbage clickb

• cremp 8y ago
  I'd say headline is correct... > Incentives from Texas include as much as $25 million in taxpayer-funded grants, and a 15-year property tax abatement possibly worth tens of millions of dollars That's literally what Amazon was forcing cities to do to each-other.
  • onething 8y ago
    There seems to be a difference in scale here. According to the Washington Post, Amazon is getting 2.4 _billion_ in subsidies from Virginia, New York and Tennessee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/amazon-hq2-to-receive-more-than-28-billion-in-incentives-from-virginia-new-york-and-tennessee/2018/11/13/f3f73cf4-e757-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.e9f72508a7dc https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/amazon-hq... That is substantially different than a property tax abatement.
• tssva 8y ago
  Apple did perform the same beauty contest as Amazon. They just didn't put up as many posters advertising it. In Northern Virginia they were pitched the same two locations as Amazon. I have no idea when Amazon did their in person tour of the locations but I know when Apple did because they made sure local TV and print journalists were there to capture them touring the Crystal City location that Amazon ultimately selected. Local papers and TV both had stories about it in their next editions. Neither of the two sites make any sense for what is mostly going to be a giant call center. Still Apple came and made sure there was plenty of coverage of it. Obviously Apple was playing some sort of PR game.