Reply to post: Another envy driven article!

Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple

LucreLout

Another envy driven article!

the final deal was one of the largest ever tax breaks that New York had given to a company

What bigger company should NYC give the largest ever tax break too?

Now, if your argument is that there shouldn't be any tax breaks, that's fine, it's not an argument I agree with, but at least it makes some sort of sense.

And Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was to get his own helicopter pad

This is where things start sounding like envy rather than reason.

That figure is more than the federal government spends on housing, education, or infrastructure.

And here we've slipped straight into politics, which is all too often the opposite of reason.

without drawing up sweetheart deals and giving them political backing, America's corporations will simply go elsewhere and take their jobs and investment with them

Whatever your feelings about life in a competetive environment, the reality is that in a competetive environment, you have to compete. Real life doesn't do paticipation medals.

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