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Columnist: Amazon HQ2-type switcheroos 'should be illegal'

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Rick Moss
Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, argues that the Amazon's controversial (and, allegedly, deceptive) campaign that pitted dozens of American cities against each other in a competition to be the home of the retailer's new headquarters raises a much larger question: Should cities be encouraged to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money to steal jobs away from other regions?

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