Does This Really Create More New Jobs Than It Costs?

I doubt it.

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[change]

Always has seemed unfair that state taxes are not paid on internet sales.
Maybe if amazon, walmart, govmoters and team up, they will give us all jobs and we can go back to the old “truck system” to be paid with “amamart” script.
Except for the SIEU workers of course who will take their cut before the “drones” get paid.

[just the facts]

change, you didn't even spell the name of the union correctly. SEIU....

[Tatum]

1) Virginians will buy from Amazon whether they're in VA or not.

2) You're witnessing the free market replace inefficient distribution with efficient distribution. It's a natural process.

[Tatum]

Ben you should have been around a hundred years ago to stand up for the rights of all the stable owners, saddle makers and manure shovelers that were unemployed because of the horseless carriage. If you'd have stopped it they'd still be working. Ok we wouldn't have the automobile industry, but the manure shovelers would be union by now.

[Church Hill Dem]

It's not like the Governor created a loophole in the tax code in the middle of the night to lure Amazon--it's the way the code currently works.

Assuming that was the case, however, the personal income taxes that 1,350 folks making good wages would pay would greatly outweigh the sales tax that would be paid on the goods sold from the new Amazon facilities.