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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Response rates from 178 Civic Nationalism voters.
79% Yes |
21% No |
69% Yes |
19% No |
6% Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised |
2% No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies |
3% Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents |
0% No, the government should never subsidize private businesses |
1% Yes, but I would prefer lowering corporate taxes to benefit all local companies |
0% No, but punish them for moving jobs out of the country |
0% Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
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0% Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer |
Trend of support over time for each answer from 178 Civic Nationalism voters.
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Trend of how important this issue is for 178 Civic Nationalism voters.
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Unique answers from Civic Nationalism voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
@9P4HF5J5mos5MO
It should not come at the cost of the environment, and locals must be allowed to vote on how much incentives to offer.
@9H6MPZ31yr1Y
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
@9FQRXB31yr1Y
yes but they cant be offered incentives to relocate from poorer areas because we must make poor areas richer
@9DMNMYQ1yr1Y
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.
@9CRC9HT1yr1Y
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.
@9CQ773S1yr1Y
It depends on the nature of projects and it's impact on people living in the locality.
@929DK8M3yrs3Y
No, cities should not, but the Central government should provide incentives to relocate TO India
@8QM3R534yrs4Y
Only small business can be helped through subsiding for a certain period of time rather than giving incentives
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