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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by conanbatt on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:02PM (#16216333)
Its reasonable that if you are individually not profiting from it, you should vote against, but most people will benefit (every single landlord, lots of businesses that will sell stuff, and all the people that would move and get a job there). If it were to be put up to a vote, the vote would be positive. If it were to be put up for an economic analysis, the economic analysis would be positive.
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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by s73ver_ on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:22PM (#16217276)
"but most people will benefit (every single landlord, lots of businesses that will sell stuff, and all the people that would move and get a job there)"

That's far, far from "most people". Landlords, for instance, would benefit, due to being able to charge higher rents. But everyone else in that town that rents would not benefit. And I dare say there are more renters than there are landlords.

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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by conanbatt on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:34PM (#16217931)
http://www.businessinsider.com/homeownership-rate-state-map-...

Most people are landlords..

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Re:Why Don’t the 20 Cities on Amazon's HQ2 Shortlist Collect... by s73ver_ on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:11PM (#16220243)
That is not at all what that says. Someone who owns their house is not a landlord. A landlord is someone who rents out a property to someone else.
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