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measurablefuncyesterday at 6:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've never seen a cent go to any service in my local municipality from Meta's taxes & whatever does end up in the city coffers is not big enough to have any real effect b/c those services could just as easily be financed by direct payments instead of some circuitous route of federal, state, & sales taxes from transactions enabled by corporations like Meta.

If I was in SF & working for Google or Meta then maybe you might have a point but I'm not in SF or any major metropolitan area so from my perspective the whole thing is actually a net negative.


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rcptyesterday at 6:57 PM

Those workers pay quite a lot of federal taxes

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simianwordsyesterday at 6:45 PM

Brief google search shows that most Meta DC's give around ~15M per year taxes on average per year. I'm not sure what circuitous route you are speaking about.

https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-12-02/dek...

https://ipmnewsroom.org/how-do-data-centers-benefit-the-plac...

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