Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies tax incentives
Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies tax incentives
- February 21, 2019
- Ami Glazer, economics, explains, courtesy of The Conversation
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New York City should count its blessings.
Amazon’s decision to walk away from its plan to build a new headquarters in Queens stunned city and state officials, who had promised US$3 billion in incentives in exchange for some 25,000 jobs. They had never questioned whether the promised jobs and economic stimulus would actually appear.
In my own research as an economist studying corporate welfare, I have found and reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other incentives. My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.
Read on, courtesy of The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/why-cities-should-stop-playing-amazons-game-and-quit-offering-companies-tax-incentives-112114.
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