On: NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job

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But wouldn’t many of those people have lived there and paid taxes anyway?

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Not without tech companies paying them to live there, no. As romantic as living in NYC is, tech workers wouldn't live there without tech jobs.

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If they leave other jobs to work for AWS, presumably the jobs they have now will need to be filled by someone else.