XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.usa   
   From: cama@ro.tran   
      
   On 10/19/2017 2:06 PM, Cafe Racer wrote:   
   > Years ago a town or city that was approached by a business that wanted to   
   set up shop, the council would say "Okay, if we have room and if you intend to   
   stay and employ people. We'll think about it."   
   >   
   > Nowadays Amazon is asking cities to compete [= beg] to get Amazon.   
   > Amazon says "What will YOU GIVE, to bring us to your town?"   
   >   
   > That's backwards.   
   > Between businesses, the hopeful bidder offers real benefits. The bidder   
   offers stuff in the hope of getting the contract.   
   >   
   > Not with Amazon; they want cities to cough up free infrastructure, tax   
   breaks, zoning changes.   
   >   
   > If Joe the Painter wanted to get a contract and said "I'll paint your   
   factory, but you have to give me a truck and all the paint, and two meals a   
   day for my men,"  any business on earth would tell him to stick it --- he's a   
   greedy idiot.   
   >   
   > But Vancouver and Toronto are saying "We'll give, give, give whatever you   
   want."   
   >   
      
      
   Sports franchises/stadii/etc...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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