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Originally Posted by The Dirt
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Seems pretty Ivory Tower to me. There's nothing wrong with businesses asking for incentives to locate in a particular city. There's nothing wrong with cities and states paying incentives.
The only problem is if they overpay. But that's on officials, not on the companies.
It's like the NFL - I think it's crazy that taxpayers subsidize billionaires. But in most cases, its the voters themselves that approved it. I disagree, but can't really complain about the process.
I think Colorado's approach is great. We will pay some significant incentives based on the value you are adding, but they are fairly modest.
We don't "need" Amazon or any one business so badly that we will "over pay" on incentives.