Sounds like extortion.
maybe they should set up shop in California or Michigan. Texas already has enough jobs.
Sounds interesting. Better than anything the fed.gov proposes. Could we sell regular light bulbs to the other 49 states thru Amazon? ;o)
It’s just business. Funny that so many people have a problem with that.
I don’t think this is much different than Indiana, Wisconsin, and other states trying to lure business away from Illinois after their tax hike with tax breaks and incentives.
In this case, Texas is trying to keep Amazon after they announced their decision to quit their distribution and warehouses in Texas in Feb. after the Comptroller handed them a $269 million bill for uncollected sales tax and tried to order them to collect sales tax.
Amazon already left Rhode Island, Hawaii, and N. Carolina in ‘09 over the same disagreement.
Warehouse jobs are not the way to build a 21st century economy.”
Lavine is an idiot IMO to suggest that we need companies who employ writers of books rather than movers of books. Apparently he hasn’t looked at the job qualifications of many of the people who have no jobs. Seems to me like these are exactly the kinds of jobs that could be filled quickly.
Sounds good to me. 5,000 new jobs would bring a lot of revenue to the state. If other states will not create business incentives, then that is *their* problem.