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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by lostlogin on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:02PM (#18454491)
But wouldn’t many of those people have lived there and paid taxes anyway?
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by slimed on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:04PM (#18454520)
Not without tech companies paying them to live there, no. As romantic as living in NYC is, tech workers wouldn't live there without tech jobs.
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by e1ven on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:06PM (#18454537)
If they leave other jobs to work for AWS, presumably the jobs they have now will need to be filled by someone else.
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