We decided it was ridiculous to offer $1.5 billion in incentives when we would never recoup that, so we protested. Amazon paid no federal taxes last year (http

We decided it was ridiculous to offer $1.5 billion in incentives when we would never recoup that, so we protested. Amazon paid no federal taxes last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/16/amazon-paid-no-federal-taxes-billion-profits-last-year/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4a1ffe4dd1d3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/16/amazon-p...), and probably would have figured out how to pay little corporate state tax. At the promised level of 25,000 jobs with an average $150,000 salary, the city (but not the state) would have only seen an extra ~$150mil in income taxes. There's lots of ways to run the projections and factor various costs/benefits, but few of them would have resulted in a 10x improvement in the offhand estimates. It was a bad investment for the city the same way most sports stadiums are.