Tell Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Dallas, and every other American city that they should not spend taxpayers' money to pad the wallets of Amazon's stockholders and boost the paychecks of its management.
Why is this important?
Amazon has American cities bidding against each other, offering tax breaks to Amazon to choose their town as the location of its new headquarters. Amazon has done more than any company except perhaps Wal-Mart to destroy local retail businesses. It dominates online sales. It has billions of dollars in cash on hand. Only a handful of retailers in the country sell more than Amazon does. Its stock is worth more than almost every other company of any kind, and its stock price keeps rising. Amazon can afford to pay for its own headquarters. Taxpayers should not have to subsidize this giant corporation.
Every dollar a city gives to Amazon is money that could be spent on schools, transportation, and other public services. Every tax break that Amazon gets is money that the chosen city will have to collect from individual taxpayers and other businesses.
Amazon should not get special treatment that its competitors don't get.
Say NO to public funding of Amazon!
