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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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