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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
a) Getting jobs looks good
b) Hiring 5000 locals spreads the wealth a little bit -- e.g. those individuals pay taxes, buy food, pay rent and so forth, that stays local
c) Amazon will close its TX distribution center and otherwise continue to fight rabidly to avoid paying sales taxes (i.e. either TX gets 5000 jobs, or a big legal bill and nothing)
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When Amazon threatened to close the facility over this, quite a few Texas newspapers said, "Buh-bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out."
Whether or not Amazon "should" pay taxes doesn't change the fact that they are wasting a lot of goodwill in the states where they keep using people's livelihoods as a hostage token. Threatening, "if you make us abide by the rules, we'll take our ball home" is going to get a lot of "well, bye!"
What is Texas supposed to do? Offer tax waivers to EVERY business who threatens to take their ball and go home? Or just offer the waivers to the really BIG businesses who threaten to take their ball and go home.