I suspect the jobs being 'killed' are the ones that will be moving away from Chicago to avoid paying the tax, such as any business that would use AWS. edit: Al

I suspect the jobs being 'killed' are the ones that will be moving away from Chicago to avoid paying the tax, such as any business that would use AWS. edit: Also the ones that sell the services can't be compelled to collect the tax and as such, moving offices away from Chicago saves the cost of tax collection implementation[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822009