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Is Government Ready for Amazon Prime?

Dec 13, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Amazon, Amazon's search for a second home, how local governments weaken democracy with tax incentives to corporations, Jef Bezos, tax incentives to corporations, the great tax giveway
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While in public office, I opposed local government giveaways that enticed corporations to move to their communities.  The promise of jobs and payrolls taxes  seldom matched expectations. One company decided to build in Portland after receiving huge incentives. What the locals got in exchange was a few janitorial openings.  Executives and middle management workers came from outside the state.  I’m glad I opposed the deal, but my being right was  little compensation to the homeless and medically indigent who sacrificed services to provide the incentives.

Today, Amazon is looking to extend its operations outside Seattle.  Local governments are turning themselves inside out to attract the attention of owner, Jeff Bezos. Chula Vista, California is offering Amazon $100,000  in free land with a 30 year exemption on taxes.  Chicago promises to return half of the $1.3 billion income tax it expects to collect back to the company.  If he accepts, Bezos will grow richer thanks to his employees’ taxes. 

Fresno, California offers a different lollipop.  They promised to put 85% of the new taxes into a special fund to be managed by Amazon executives. Not sure what that does for the public good, but it leaves local decisions to a corporation.

Boston has the best idea when it comes to giving Amazon cake and allowing the company to eat it , too.  The city proposes to create a department within its structure dedicated to representing Amazon’s interest.  What more could Amazon want except to be Boston? (“Raising a white flag to Amazon, by Danny Westneat, reprinted in The Week, December 8, 2018, pg. 34.)

 

 

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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