In November 2018 the online e-commerce company Amazon announced it would be building a second headquarters in New York City and Arlington, VA. The announcement came a year after the company announced it would accept proposals from any North American city who wanted to host the headquarters. Amazon said the company could invest over $5 billion and the offices would create up to 50,000 high paying jobs. More than 200 cities applied and offered Amazon millions of dollars in economic incentives and tax breaks. For the New York City headquarters the city and state governments gave Amazon $2.8…
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42% No |
42% Yes |
34% No |
7% Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents |
4% No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies |
5% Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised |
3% No, the government should never subsidize private businesses |
3% Yes, but I would prefer lowering corporate taxes to benefit all local companies |
1% No, but punish them for moving jobs out of the country |
2% Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
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1% Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer |
See how support for each position on “Corporate Subsidies” has changed over time for 19.7k Spain voters.
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See how importance of “Corporate Subsidies” has changed over time for 19.7k Spain voters.
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Unique answers from Spain users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
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Spend money to improve structure and comunity to attract companies and punish them if moving jobs out of country.
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No, spend money on improving infrastructure and the comunity to attract companies, decrease taxes and punish them if moving jobs out of country.
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Spend money to improve structure and comunity toattract companies, lower taxes and abolish double taxation,punish them formoving jobs out of country.
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Spend money to improve comunities and comunities, lower taxes for companies, punish them for moving jobs out of country.
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Spend money on improving infrastructure and comunity to attract companies and reduce taxes and punish them for moving jobs out of country.
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Spend money to attract companies, lower taxes, punish them for moving jobs out of country and lower taxes draseicaly for domestic companies.
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