[lovich]

I'm going to go against the consensus here and agree with you. Sure it would be great if Amazon moved to your city and added jobs, but that's not what they are doing. They are trying to start a bidding war between cities so that in the end the city gets as little value as possible and Amazon gets the most. This is especially true if you end up in a situation where Amazon gets some tax break for X years and the city expects a return in X+5 years, but Amazon just moved again after the tax break is gone.

Cities do better when they set themselves up to be attractive to companies naturally, not when they try to bribe an company to come to them

[WillReplyfFood]

Also where does that bribe money actually come from? The answer, local shops and companys- constantly threatened by amazon- pay the bribe to give there enemy a free lunch.