> This Amazon deal is likely to be neutral or beneficial for whichever government manages to pull them in. It's a race to the bottom but it likely isn't really deeply harmful.

(the employees will pay property taxes and spend money in the community...)

There is absolutely no world where this is neutral or beneficial for any government.

Of course the employees will pay property taxes and spend money.... but our whole society and tax system is based on the idea that the employees pay taxes AND the employer pays taxes. Just because employees are paying doesn't mean the employer shouldn't.

The government should be collecting millions (billions?) in property taxes and spending from the employees AND billions from Amazon - that's how the whole system was designed and is supposed to function. That's how roads are built and teachers are paid. The government will lose billions of tax dollars from Amazon they should be getting, which is absolutely 'deeply harmful'

I have no idea why anyone would want to be part of a race to the bottom. The drive to increase corporate profits is gutting America, and the kind of reasoning you use simply justifies it.