When Paul LePage sponsored an act to codify the global capitalist world order into the Maine statutes
Considering the far-reaching effects of Maine's Major Business Headquarter's Expansion Act
Disclosure: The opinion and analysis presented here are by a layperson, based on an independent study of Maine economic development statutes.
Amazon Strikes America!
In 2018, Amazon was looking for a location for new headquarters.
In an article by Wharton University, Management, it is speculated that Amazon knew all along where their new headquarters would be located, but as a long-term side effect, the contest produced a comprehensive map of corporate welfare opportunities in the USA, available to global corporations everywhere!
.. Amazon received 238 proposals by the October 19 deadline from big cities like Boston, Chicago and Atlanta; smaller hip cities like Austin and Portland; gritty, nouveau-hip sites like Detroit and pre-hip Camden, N.J. (where the slogan is “Experience the Rebirth!”): regional bids like ones from Central Indiana or a three-city package in Missouri; and Northeast hopefuls betting on proximity to the corridors of power, like…
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