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Except that the law is not supposed to be a car deal but supposed to be the same for all actors.

Or do you also think you should be able to pay to ignore all laws in general?

If I follow your logic, I think a fair tool for cities and state should be the possibility to have tariffs for everything coming from outside the city/state. So now to attract Amazon not only can you say "if you come here you won't pay tax" but more importantly you can say "if you DON'T come here we will tax 50% of every sale you make in our city". Now suddenly I think many people here would not sound so keen on the idea.




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