Re:Facing opposition, Amazon reconsiders NY headquarters sit...
by Alex3917 on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:33PM
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> Local government can't be trusted to allocate public resources in a fair way... so we defer that to a private company?
Public resources in NYC are already allocated by private companies; that's a big part of why local government can't be trusted in the first place. Amazon is just saying that if they build a huge building in NYC, then they want to control public resource allocation in the area of the building in place of whatever private company would already be doing this.
> Where's the guarantee (or even suggestion) that Amazon would use their tax break to improve local infrastructure?
That's literally that the deal is, or at least a substantial portion of it:
Public resources in NYC are already allocated by private companies; that's a big part of why local government can't be trusted in the first place. Amazon is just saying that if they build a huge building in NYC, then they want to control public resource allocation in the area of the building in place of whatever private company would already be doing this.
> Where's the guarantee (or even suggestion) that Amazon would use their tax break to improve local infrastructure?
That's literally that the deal is, or at least a substantial portion of it:
https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2018/11/13/heres-wh...