A Closer Look at the Tax Incentives in the Amazon Deal... Some activists and elected officials oppose the secretive process by which Amazon got its land, tax breaks and grant, others feel like the company isn’t a corporate entity the city and state should be welcoming because of labor, political and other practices. But all of the opponents to the Amazon
Amazon Got Exactly What It Deserved—And So Did New York... In a period of growing antipathy toward billionaires, Amazon’s corporate-welfare haul struck many as a gratuitous gift to a trillion-dollar company that was probably going to keep adding thousands of jobs to the New York region anyway. The company has more than 5,000 employees in the five boroughs,