Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Amazon HQ2 incentives Topic Amazon HQ2 incentives 5 mentions in 2 episodes The hosts discuss reported taxpayer costs and displacement associated with Amazon’s headquarters plans. Mentions 300: Tonight, We Dine in Hell! Nov 22, 2018 1:47 New York taxpayers have learned that they're going to be forced to finance a helipad 2:25 a new analysis by Good Jobs First found that the actual cost to taxpayers will likely be $4.6 billion 299: Donate Your Data Today! Nov 19, 2018 21:55 they were holding basically contests and saying to cities, what you're going to give us 22:29 The state will offer $1.2 billion in tax credits 23:17 These are the outrageous incentives that the losing cities offered Amazon for HQ2