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Re:Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Un... by Godel_unicode on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:09AM (#18474066)
> If you could simply increase your tax revenue by giving tax money away to companies

I find it the height of irony that, on a site created by a startup accelerator, you're saying that you can't help a business by giving it cash

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Re:Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Un... by Barrin92 on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:18AM (#18474091)
by funding a startup you are adding competition to the market. Funding startups is not a zero sum game. In fact fostering a local entrepreneurship community that can compete with amazon on the market would be to the benefit of workers, the economy, and citizens. Transplanting existing Amazon jobs from one place to the other, is a zero sum game.

related article precisely on this issue:

https://hbr.org/2018/07/landing-amazon-hq2-isnt-the-right-wa...

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Re:Subsidies to Amazon Are Uneconomical, Un-American, and Un... by Godel_unicode on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:56AM (#18474217)
You think that Amazon has 25,000 jobs that are going to be transplanted to NY? Come on.
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