Date: November 28, 2018
Contact: mediacenter@freeandfairmarketsinitiative.org
In Case You Missed It!
The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: Amazon HQ2 Is “Corporate Welfare”
“If a tax break goes to a company that would have moved in even without such a subsidy, then taxpayers have traded away money that could have been spent on education, infrastructure and other public services.”
“If a tax break goes to a company that would have moved in even without such a subsidy, then taxpayers have traded away money that could have been spent on education, infrastructure and other public services. Nor are such tax giveaways fair to existing businesses that pay their required share of taxes and rely on the services and infrastructure funded by those tax dollars. Worse, researchers have found that incentives are often poorly targeted and don’t deliver the promised benefits in terms of jobs and economic activity. That’s not economic development. It’s corporate welfare.” (The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, “Amazon played American cities for suckers,” 11.15.18)
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