You’d hardly ever see me agreeing with anything Hamilton writes or says, but his post is spot on and your complete misreading of it is pretty dumb. Amazon has everyone sucking their dick for the perceived chance of a payout, and you’re stating that you’re happy to suck that dick hard for no chance at anything.

I suggest that you google “race to the bottom” and try to understand the long-term consequences. 

You don’t realize how much you are being taken for a ride, I assume.

Yes, we understand why communities do this. They are desperate for jobs.

Be careful what you wish for, especially if you don’t work in the tech industry. You’ll be priced out of the city you love in a few years and won’t see any infrastructure improvements, as we in Seattle found out. Good luck.

Mr HN has to remain professional. I, on the other hand, can say whatever the fuck I want.

“Screw you, I got mine”

Just in case you wanted the short version of that.

Counterpoint: I have a good job with a good company and don’t plan to leave. Amazon coming into town would do nothing for me but raise my taxes to pay them to come to my town. A few more millennials running around will only cause more traffic congestion and longer lines and higher prices at any decent local…

Folks love to grovel before and on behalf of their corporate feudal masters.

They probably think lower business taxes create jobs (rather than demand for product). It’s just more tribalist bullshit. They don’t get that the tax handouts just prop up these businesses on the backs of citezens. That the breaks given to…

The point is so far over you’re head it landed in the next city

What city in the top 20 do you think needs a massive boom? Also, you massively miss the point, since without handouts Amazon would still be gracing one of those cities with their presence.

What city and company is this?

Good on the 20k of professionals. But it sounds like the rest got “trickle down” crumbs.

Remarkably stupid comment, thank you.

Too bad about those roads and public school funding though.....

Hey, you never know. The Red States have already demonstrated a willingness to fuck over the coastal blue states. It would be kind of great if their jealousy at largely being ignored by Amazon were to fuel the passage of that kind of law.

TL:DR?

It’s all part of the same problem.

Still seems like small beer compared to the almost $4 billion in tax incentives Foxconn is getting.

Some Minnesota teachers have recently tied their stalled negotiations and decrease in school funding to local tax breaks for corporations.

And rightly so.