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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's what Montgomery County, MD is offering Amazon for HQ2 (per a FOIA request)
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Must be Yabba Dabba Doo Tippy Top Secret.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Demanding prostitute cities giving them free goodies.
Set their tax rate by market cap not adjusted discounted corporate next to nothing rate.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They demand tens of millions of dollars to locate facilities. They get access roads built, sewers, lighting. It is a racket, not just Amazon does it, Apple, Microsoft, all of them do it.
Local politicians should put the money they give these companies into helping local businesses that are making money or are startups grow - the problem is then the politicians will prioritize helping friends and family instead of businesspeople that have ideas that create jobs.
royable
(1,264 posts)And the county name didn't get redacted!!!
Zorro
(15,745 posts)Not too surprised they won't reveal their bid at this time.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)With no other information I could just think someone posted this as a fake. Or is this an Amazon outrage catcher trap?
Very confusing.
brooklynite
(94,637 posts)Link to tweet
The fundamental issue is that some City officials don't know what's being offered in their name.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)themselves.
DavidDvorkin
(19,480 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)as slaves in his distribution center. We think we will win with this offer.