Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
by anth_anm on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:07PM
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I'll choose that 0 over giving away 3 billion every day. I don't care how you try to justify this sort of corruption.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
by smsm42 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:54PM
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There was no "giving away" anything. There was "not taxing Amazon as harshly as others". It's like I tell you "I want to rent space on your frontyard for my sign" and you say "ok, $100 per day would do nicely" and I say "I need it for the whole month and $3K it too much, maybe $1.5K would do it?" and you say "I am not giving you away fifteen hundred bucks!". Then I say "OK, was nice talking to you" and you got $0 now instead of $1.5K you could have. But you're somehow happy you didn't "give away $1.5K", which you never had.
Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
by jtms on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:49AM
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Perhaps consider having even a mild understanding of how tax incentives work before spouting nonsense righteous indignation?