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Don't forget 4. doing a good PR so that a Dem-controlled Congress doesn't push for repatriation of corporate cash reserves kept in tax havens.

• mrweasel 6y ago
  $430B seems like more than you'd need for a good PR stunt.
  • skrtskrt 6y ago
    It's $0 if you were already going to spend it anyway
  • perardi 6y ago
    I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless, but they packaged it into a nice press release at a potentially fraught political moment. And…$430 billion over 5 years is a lot, but what if it influences tax or tariff rates just a bit in your direction over a 10-year period? Because that could be worth it, especially, again, if you were going to set up that new campus anyway.
    • zepto 6y ago
      > I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless Regardless of what?
      • perardi 6y ago
        Regardless of this PR they put out. This spend was probably in the books, so let’s wrap it in a nice bow before Congressional hearings.
        • zepto 6y ago
          It seems inconceivable that they wouldn’t have made a PR announcement about a large investment in the US, regardless.
• sircastor 6y ago
  Didn’t they do this with the former administration’s tax deal?