WAMU: Amazon Doesn’t Need the Money
media mentionBut analyses by nonpartisan think tanks Brookings Institution and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research — as well as the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which studies the impact of tax policy on working people — suggest incentives can come at a large public cost. That cost can be obscured when incentives take the form of foregone tax revenue, not line items on a budget. Read more