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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by waisbrot on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:22PM (#19165620)
> Can you explain this some more? Are you suggesting that governments establish a target figure and adjust that year's tax policy to make sure it's met?

They are just suggesting that the site that Amazon would have occupied will be rented by some other business. Probably, that business will not have gotten all the tax-breaks that Amazon did. Therefore, the tax collected by NYC on that space will be larger with Amazon gone.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by MockObject on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:17PM (#19166124)
The alternate businesses may not provide the same density of profit as Amazon, so their total tax outlay might be much lower over time. (One must factor in the other taxes paid by the Amazon employees as well.)

Also, pretty crappy to get downvoted for an honest question.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by lkrubner on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:16AM (#19168615)
I suspect you were downvoted for the line "The existence of budget deficits suggests otherwise."
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