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Most of the tax breaks Amazon used are open for pretty much any company, and have been around for a very long time. But no one seems to want to repeal or fix th
by boron1006 8y ago
Most of the tax breaks Amazon used are open for pretty much any company, and have been around for a very long time. But no one seems to want to repeal or fix these laws. In all of this, I haven't seen a single person talk about them. You can't agree to a set of rules then complain when someone actually follows them.
- _bxg1 8y agoMany people may not even know about them. Encouraging people to channel these feelings into the ballot is well and fine, but let's not pretend there's anything close to a direct coupling between the will of the people and the will of their representatives, much less preexisting laws. People are allowed to be dissatisfied; they don't have to simply lie in the bed that they only had a partial hand in making.
- pochamago 8y agoI don't think anyone saying people shouldn't be dissatisfied. It's just that targeting Amazon with that ire is ineffective when it's the laws on the books that are the problem
- _bxg1 8y agoIneffective without other action, but not misdirected.
- boron1006 8y agoYou do have to be logically consistent in your voting though, and you should be as well informed as possible. You can't have people vote for anything shiny with "JOBS" written on it, and then get outraged when corporations get tax breaks. Continuous outrage leads to the same results as continuous praise: Leaders who don't feel bound to the laws that their constituents have created.
- pathseeker 8y agoDon't defend them when they are criticized for complaining about something they put absolutely zero effort into researching. Anyone complaining about Amazon and not the state government and/or the tax break programs is being ignorant and shouldn't be coddled.