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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by GhostVII on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:20PM (#18443944)
I think the difference is that it isn't a person bidding on the Amazon HQ, it is a city, and IMO, cities in the same country shouldn't be competing with eachother for business. Amazon has to put a headquarters somewhere in the US, what benefit do US citizens get by allowing cities to undercut eachother in an attempt to get the HQ in their city?
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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by EADGBE on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:40PM (#18444680)
> cities in the same country shouldn't be competing with eachother

I feel like the US government is set up to allow just this sort of thing, though. States running themselves like countries and all...

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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by abecedarius on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:15PM (#18445438)
We definitely should want competition in the governance market. But it needs to take the form of neutral rules instead of sweetheart deals for particular firms. It’s the latter that I would like to ban. The U.S. constitution has an analogous clause, the prohibition of "bills of attainder" against individuals.
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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by Spivak on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:13PM (#18444466)
The citizens of that city enjoy the wealth that Amazon brings to the area. Cities, rightly, salavate over businesses that bring in outside money because that's how an area gets wealthier.
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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by webdood90 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:41PM (#18445184)
You're not considering the negatives that come with 25k new jobs suddenly appearing in a city. The Denver metro area in particular is already struggling to manage the influx in transplants - this would only make it worse.
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