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To that end, to put the $400MM in perspective, Amazon has received $671MM of disclosed tax breaks and other subsidies from New York State. [1]

(Context note: NYS 'jobs for tax cuts' program may be the most aggressive in the nation? I'm not an expert.)

[1]: https://goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker/?state=New+York

Well, sure, there are lots of things that could happen in the world that would be even better than a $400M donation like this, but that doesn't make a $400M donation a bad or pointless thing.

Nor does it make this donation somehow responsible for stopping those other good things from happening.

What taxes do they not pay? Have you contacted the IRS about this tax evasion? They have a whistleblower program so you could pocket some cash!