More than 230 cities have lined up to shower Amazon.com Inc. with financial incentives — some valued in the billions — in hopes of landing the company’s second North American headquarters. If that makes some taxpayers nervous, it should; Amazon isn’t the first major employer with the potential to receive billions in public subsidies, although its promise to deliver up to 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment for its so-called “HQ2” has set the stage for an incentive package for the record…
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