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

Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by marricks on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:50PM (#18454959)

It’s really cool how Amazon has hundreds of cities up in arms bidding just to give Long Island such a great deal. /s

I have little trust in city officials and corporations to be forthright about the deal. The bidding process is hidden and full details are slow to come out to protect the deal.

Payouts to corporations has been a pattern and it should be fixed at the federal level. Companies don’t make a bidding war to help local communities, it’s for their own bottom line.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by Apocryphon on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:54PM (#18454987)

> The bidding process is hidden and full details are slow to come out to protect the deal.

This is a great point. Politicians obfuscate the legislative deal-making process and tech companies sneak all sorts of clauses into EULAs and employ dark patterns in their software. Why should we assume this deal, birthed from the intersection of politics and technology, be any better?

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by ericpearl on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:47PM (#18456469)

It’s not In Long Island. It’s Long Island City, which is in Queens, which is next to Long Island.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by zonotope on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:13PM (#18456585)

Queens is a part of Long Island, in the north western corner of it. So is Brooklyn, which is in the south western corner. Long Island City is indeed a neighborhood within Queens though.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by vobios on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:15PM (#18456597)

Technically, Queens is part of Long Island.

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