NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job

Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by Apocryphon on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:29PM (#18454765)

What about the externalities and expenses pointed out in a prior thread [0], specifically the ones not helped by federal funds in this post [1]?

Will Amazon help to pay for the transit and housing required by their move? Because they're sure paying less than they would have if not for the incentives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18443624

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18445241

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by nine_k on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:15PM (#18456312)

> Will Amazon help to pay for the transit and housing required by their move

In a sense, it will, in the form of the salaries it will pay to the employees using said housing and transit.

One might say that MTA operates at a loss and is subsidized, but this is a known problem of MTA being anything but frugal.

Realty prices in NYC / Brooklyn / Queens are not exactly low, and new construction is incessant everywhere (which is good). Paying renters or even buyers, the new Amazon employees, will finance their part of that.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by kodablah on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:15PM (#18455150)

Note, that first thread didn't point out any of the positive externalities GP did.

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