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If they start handing out billions for corporate HQs it won't stop with Amazon. Google and everybody else will like up for theirs too.
by viburnum 8y ago
If they start handing out billions for corporate HQs it won't stop with Amazon. Google and everybody else will like up for theirs too.
- tptacek 8y agoThey weren't "handing out billions" to Amazon, as the letter explains.
- asabjorn 8y agoAmazon would generate $30b in tax revenue over the deal length, for which it would be given a $3b break given certain conditions. That is not a handout, because amazon generated all the money in question.
- viburnum 8y agoOkay fine whatever, every other big employer will be lining up for the same deal or threatening to leave.
- asabjorn 8y agoWhen Queens has attracted enough campuses like Amazons to become an ecosystem no incentives should be necessary. The deal has positives and negatives for Amazon due to its location, and lack of an ecosystem. After Amazon moved 25k jobs there there it would have been hard for them to leave.
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