There’s a lesson to be learned from Detroit’s failure to make the 20-city short list for Amazon’s “HQ2” project: Let’s not do this any more.
The national frenzy over Amazon’s second headquarters should teach us it’s time to stop being one of 50 states or one of 200-plus cities getting played against each other by giant companies. Rather, let’s opt out of the corporate welfare hustle altogether, stop our politicians and bureaucrats from trying to micromanage the economy and make them put the money back into our communities where it came from in the first place.
