亚马逊III：All the Love/Surrender Letters

论亚马逊陪都RFP， 五胡乱华之不两立
http://taolaw.blogspot.com/2017/09/hq2pov.html

《道德经》的可复制科学方法，亚马逊HQ陪都
http://taolaw.blogspot.com/2017/09/hq.html

亚马逊updates:  Amazon are getting extravagant love/surrender letters from cities all over North America, while the Seattle city seethes like spurned soon-to-be-exes/captivator.  华人公司来美国扩张修大部门，不知道可不可以拿到这么傻白甜的Civic Deal。  不过华人律师很少，估计更可能被大lawsuit.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/this-city-hall-brought-to-you-by-amazon/

Example: Chicago has offered to let Amazon pocket $1.32 billion in income taxes paid by its own workers. This is truly perverse. Called a personal income-tax diversion, the workers must still pay the full taxes, but instead of the state getting the money to use for schools, roads or whatever, Amazon would get to keep it all instead.

“The result is that workers are, in effect, paying taxes to their boss,” says a report on the practice from Good Jobs First, a think tank critical of many corporate subsidies.

Most of the HQ2 bids had more traditional sweeteners. Such as Chula Vista, California, which offered to give Amazon 85 acres of land for free (value: $100 million) and to excuse any property taxes on HQ2 for 30 years ($300 million). New Jersey remains the dollar king of the subsidy sweepstakes, having offered Amazon $7 billion to build in Newark.

But more of a bellwether to me are proposals that effectively would put Amazon inside the government.

Some are small. Boston has offered to set up an “Amazon Task Force” of city employees working on the company’s behalf. These would include a workforce coordinator, to help with Amazon’s employment needs, as well as a community- relations official to smooth over Amazon conflicts throughout Boston. (Surely Amazon can handle these things itself?)

But the most far-reaching offer is from Fresno, California. That city of half a million isn’t offering any tax breaks. Instead it has a novel plan to give Amazon special authority over how the company’s taxes are spent.
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