• The Seattle Times, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:16 PM

Danny Westneat at The Seattle Times reviewed some of the plans submitted by more than 200 municipalities to shelter Amazon’s second headquarters -- and he was appalled by what he found. For example, “Chicago has offered to let Amazon pocket $1.32 billion in income taxes paid by its own workers,” he writes. “This is truly perverse … Called a personal income-tax diversion, the workers must still pay the full taxes, but instead of the state getting the money to use for schools, roads or whatever, Amazon would get to keep it all instead.”

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