“… If you've been to the movies recently and stayed until the very end of the massive list of names that follows the film, you may have noticed the startling number of tax credits and other subsidies being doled out to producers by states and cities. … When Amazon in 2017 announced plans to open a second world headquarters (HQ2), the news came with a request that potential host cities show their love … Some 238 cities spent taxpayer money to prepare and make their offers, many of them unbeknownst to the taxpayers themselves.”