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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by zaroth on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:48PM (#18454945)
> Obviously the only winners here are corrupt politicians and greedy Amazon execs. They should all be jailed.

You can dislike tax incentives if you want to, but the hyperbole is so over the top it becomes radical, divisive, noise.

We need less of this in these discussions.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by jondubois on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:43PM (#18455382)
The division is real and worsening. It's not an imaginary concept that we can choose not to discuss.
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by sokoloff on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:21PM (#18456340)
Discussing can be productive.

Calling for a blanket incarceration of legislators and Amazon executives is not.

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