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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18% No |
68% Yes |
15% No |
7% Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised |
2% No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies |
4% Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents |
1% No, the government should never subsidize private businesses |
2% Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
0% 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 |
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1% Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer |
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Unique answers from India users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
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Yes, as long as it creates more jobs locally by hiring local people and with locals have the right to vote on how and what much incentives are being given.
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No, instead the government should impose heavy taxes on the industries that open the offices in the class A and class B cities which are already congested; have incentive for relocating the industries to the rural / backward areas; and that too only if
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yes but they cant be offered incentives to relocate from poorer areas because we must make poor areas richer
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As long as they pay a good wage and tax it should be fine but if they want extra tax cuts they should be able to pay higher wages atleast.
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It depends on the nature of projects and it's impact on people living in the locality.
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No, cities should not, but the Central government should provide incentives to relocate TO India
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