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user-inactivated  ·  2354 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cities Dream Of Landing Amazon's New HQ And They're Going To Great Lengths To Show It

Amazon is full of evil masterminds. They are going to get billions in tax breaks and handouts from this. I have to say, brilliant plan. Let everyone out there did a hole to the bottom, find the people willing to dig deeper, and suck at the taxpayer and public teat for all its worth.

As much as I would love this thing to move out here, I'm kinda of the mind now that the emotion has worn off that we cannot afford it. Foxcom is getting $3 billion The deal won't make the state any money by some calculations for 10 years, that article mentions 25. That is for 3,000 jobs, most of those in construction, not actually at the plant.

$3 Billion for up to 12,500 jobs? how much are states willing to go into the red for 50,000 jobs?





b_b  ·  2354 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Michigan offered Foxconn a deal that would have let them keep the portion of workers' state income tax that they're supposed to send directly to the state. Seriously, the workers still pay the tax, but Foxconn gets to keep it. And that still wasn't enough to beat Wisconsin. And I'm glad we "lost" that rivalry. Pay taxes to a private company? Fuck you. Eventually something's gotta give with respect to how states compete with each other. Texas is the great example. The "Texas Miracle" was a result of no taxes, no workman's comp, no environmental regulation, and look where it's gotten them: an environmental catastrophe with no state money to clean up. I don't want my state to be the next "miracle". Ever.

OftenBen  ·  2354 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Michigan offered Foxconn a deal that would have let them keep the portion of workers' state income tax that they're supposed to send directly to the state. Seriously, the workers still pay the tax, but Foxconn gets to keep it.

They can DO that? Seriously? We need a 24/7 watchdog on whoever proposed that idea. Their pocket is likely already lined with corruption bux.

b_b  ·  2353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As I understand it, they wrote the bill to say that any company who creates x number of jobs between years such and such would qualify, conditions that no companies other than foxconn could qualify for. That way it wasn't a company specific bill, even though it was.

OftenBen  ·  2353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Christ...

I'm shocked we haven't elected Kid Rock already.

cgod  ·  2354 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm glad that Portland seemed to immediately dismiss the idea of trying to attract Amazon.