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A comment on Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities. Parent comment

Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by axlee on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:28PM (#37126384)
I'd prefer if Amazon et al paid their taxes and society as a whole could decide how to spend it to better itself, through the democracy that we are supposed to live in.
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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by blamazon on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:31PM (#37126433)
To that end, to put the $400MM in perspective, Amazon has received $671MM of disclosed tax breaks and other subsidies from New York State. [1]

(Context note: NYS 'jobs for tax cuts' program may be the most aggressive in the nation? I'm not an expert.)

[1]: https://goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker/?state=New+York

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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by pb7 on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:38PM (#37126501)
What taxes do they not pay? Have you contacted the IRS about this tax evasion? They have a whistleblower program so you could pocket some cash!
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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by NickM on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:48PM (#37126623)
Well, sure, there are lots of things that could happen in the world that would be even better than a $400M donation like this, but that doesn't make a $400M donation a bad or pointless thing.

Nor does it make this donation somehow responsible for stopping those other good things from happening.

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