In November 2018 the online e-commerce company Amazon announced it would be building a second headquarters in New York City and Arlington, VA. The announcement came a year after the company announced it would accept proposals from any North American city who wanted to host the headquarters. Amazon said the company could invest over $5 billion and the offices would create up to 50,000 high paying jobs. More than 200 cities applied and offered Amazon millions of dollars in economic incentives and tax breaks. For the New York City headquarters the city and state governments gave Amazon $2.8…
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60% No |
29% Yes |
53% No |
4% Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents |
3% No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies |
4% Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised |
2% No, but punish them for moving jobs out of the country |
1% Yes, but I would prefer lowering corporate taxes to benefit all local companies |
1% No, the government should never subsidize private businesses |
1% Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
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0% Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer |
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See how importance of “Corporate Subsidies” has changed over time for 33.6k France voters.
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