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No it's not balanced, that was my whole point. Yes there will be an increase in tax base, but it won't cover the increase in expenses. If it does then it implies that the current businesses are overtaxed.



It will cover any increase in expense. Not all jobs are equal, and Amazon R&D jobs are the most rewarding. They don’t have crime like non-college working class, they don’t die of opiuates like restaurant and other service workers. They don’t have cancer or birth defects like factory workers.


Not if the average salary and usage taxes per Amazon employee are higher than normal for the city, which seems likely.


>If it does then it implies that the current businesses are overtaxed.

The "implication" is not obvious to the casual observer.




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