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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Response rates from 1.9k Thessaly and Central Greece voters.
75% Yes |
25% No |
56% Yes |
20% No |
8% Yes, as long as the local environment is not compromised |
3% No, spend that money on improving infrastructure and the community to attract companies |
7% Yes, if the company promises to create new jobs by hiring local residents |
2% No, the government should never subsidize private businesses |
2% Yes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
0% No, but punish them for moving jobs out of the country |
1% Yes, but I would prefer lowering corporate taxes to benefit all local companies |
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1% Yes, but only if local citizens can vote on the amount of incentives to offer |
Trend of support over time for each answer from 1.9k Thessaly and Central Greece voters.
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Trend of how important this issue is for 1.9k Thessaly and Central Greece voters.
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Unique answers from Thessaly and Central Greece voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
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Spend money to improve comunities and infrastructure and lower taxes and punish them moving jobs out of country and punish them if move jobs out of country.
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Spend money to improve infrastructure and cocmmunity to attract companies, lower taxes and punish them if moving country out of country.
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Spend money to improve comunities and infrastructure to attract companies, lower taxes nad punish them for moving job out of country.
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Spending money to improve comunity and infrastructure to attract companies, lower taxes, and punish them for moving job out of country.
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Spend money to improving infrasture and companies to attract companies. give less taxes for companies and punish them to move jobs out of country.
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Spend money on improving infrastructure and comunity to atract domestic and foreign companies and punish them for moving jobs out of country and lower taxes for all companies.
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Spend money to improve comunity and infrastructure to atract companies and punish them for moving jobs out of country.
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Private companies should instead be owned by the country
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