This is wrong, even if legal. The politicians take your money to bribe companies to locate there, and then the politicians crow about what they did for jobs.
Your money being spent.
Of course, they won’t give you a cent to locate your small business there.
So NJ offers $7 billion and it’s not considered the “most likely” location?
That shows how bad things are in NJ.
I thought I heard they had already chosen a city in Ohio?
Go Austin!
So the rest of Texas is not further contaminated by the hiring practices of amazon.
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Of this you can be certain: The winning city will be west of the Mississippi AND be considered “cool”.
There will also be a large university system near by.
All I know is that my home town, Lexington, KY, is one of the candidates being considered, because they already have a warehouse here.
I’d give odds of 99% that in ends up in or near Austin TX. I’d even bet that was the plan all along, but Bezo’s trying to maximize the amount of corporate welfare he can get by having a bidding process....i.e.. taking my money and giving it to the richest person on the planet.
All of this hoopla sounds like a city trying to help an NFL team build a new stadium with taxpayer dollars. Maybe Amazon can raise the bar and require that each bid includes a place for the Chargers to call home.