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Should cities be allowed to offer private companies economic incentives to relocate?

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 1k Laissez-Faire voters.

68%
Yes
32%
No
53%
Yes
23%
No
5%
Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised
6%
No, the government should never subsidize private businesses
3%
Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer
2%
No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies
3%
Yes, but I would prefer lowering corporate taxes to benefit all local companies
1%
No, but punish them for moving jobs out of the country
2%
Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents
2%
Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives

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 @ISIDEWITHanswered…3yrs3Y

Yes, cities should do whatever they choose

 @98PJRK4 from Alabama  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, cities should do as they choose

 @8TPZGDY from Kansas  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, and punish them for moving jobs out of the country

 @9X45M63 from Tennessee  answered…4mos4MO

Yes , but only if: the local environment is not compromised, the tax revenue will exceed the tax incentives, the company promises to hire local residents, and local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer.

 @9JDPKH4 from New York  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, provided that tax revenue will exceed tax incentives, the company promises to hire mostly local residents, and local citizens vote to approve it.

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised, the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents, and the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives

 @8G5T788 from Kansas  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but every state should have their own incentive program if they choose to have one at all. This is not a federal level issue.

 @B39MR8Nfrom Washington  answered…7 days7D

yes, we must do what is necessary to create and provide jobs, we should also punish companies for moving operations abroad.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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