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Old 02-19-2019, 03:57 PM   #123
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I'm no fan of "AOC" but this wasn't all tax credits, unless a "grant" means something different than what I think it does. Amazon can afford to build their own place and pay the same taxes everyone else has to pay. They're one of the richest corporations in the world. Why should they be given an unfair advantage?
A large corporation moving in is a desirable thing to politicians so they get a lot of incentives. Cities compete to get them to move there. That's how things work. That's how they've always worked, at least during my lifetime. Maybe it's better in Utopia.

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