Apple threw shade at Amazon 'HQ2' as 'beauty contest,' but then it did the same

Re:Apple threw shade at Amazon 'HQ2' as 'beauty contest,' bu... by cremp on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:03PM (#18674473)

I'd say headline is correct...

> Incentives from Texas include as much as $25 million in taxpayer-funded grants, and a 15-year property tax abatement possibly worth tens of millions of dollars

That's literally what Amazon was forcing cities to do to each-other.

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Re:Apple threw shade at Amazon 'HQ2' as 'beauty contest,' bu... by onething on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#18674809)

There seems to be a difference in scale here. According to the Washington Post, Amazon is getting 2.4 _billion_ in subsidies from Virginia, New York and Tennessee:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/amazon-hq...

That is substantially different than a property tax abatement.

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