It's not just money is it? It's also things like infrastructure they'll provide?
Could that possibly make Amazon more efficient, and so employ more people who spend their salaries and so on, creating a net gain for the whole US?
Could that possibly make Amazon more efficient, and so employ more people who spend their salaries and so on, creating a net gain for the whole US?
They'd be much better spending that money on their neglected public transit or their neglected public housing...
But some cities were suggesting that! They were going to invest in infrastructure, knowing that the extra income from Amazon in the area would pay for it. It was not a zero-sum game.
For example some cities were proposing building things like extra train stations, which benefit everyone, and aren't something Amazon could have done privately.
Public infrastructure is available to all.. why can't the public finance it without Amazon?
Cities may have been hoping that with Amazon moving into a region they would have extra tax receipts which would enable spending they would not have been able to afford before.