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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by r_smart on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:38PM (#19165756)
It's basically standard practice for any business to negotiate tax breaks for building in one place rather than another. I'm not going to spend any real amount of time tracking down theoretically publicly available documents on these deals. Sure the records exist, but I have no knowledge of a database I can search, and I'm not putting in a FOIA request.

Here's an article discussing the topic at large[0] (and Google is one of the beneficiaries here).

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/02/us-cities-and...

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by JohnFen on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:45PM (#19167192)
> It's basically standard practice for any business to negotiate tax breaks for building in one place rather than another.

Yes, this is common. But just because it's common doesn't mean it's right or should be allowed.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by r_smart on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:14PM (#19167711)
Please point to where I said anything about right or allowed.
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