[unethical_ban]

I understand the tragedy of the commons, cities' race to the bottom, Amazon not needing breaks, so on.

I also think some of this could have been avoided if people felt like they were part of the process, instead of being told by the state "Hey we negotiated with a behemoth company for them to take over your community - trust me, you'll like it".

[tehlike]

You cant involve public with everything, or it would lead to big overhead

[icelancer]

For billions of dollars of tax breaks? I don't think it's asking too much. Washington State manages to have non-binding advisory votes on topics just like this without much complaint.

[markkanof]

Very true, but we aren’t talking about involving the public in every single decision that government makes. But some of these significant ones might make sense. Especially if the outcome was that the deal went through.

[sitkack]

Efficiency over democracy, everyone is doing it these days!