50,000 people x $100,000 per year medium income for the work they do is $5 billion in payroll per year.
At a 30% income tax rate alone, you are looking at $1.5 billion at potential tax revenue. I know a lot of these people that Amazon will hire are already employed somewhere in Canada, so lets say you create 25,000 new net jobs. That is $750 million per year in income tax. Now start figuring GST, property tax, payroll tax, corporate tax rates, and then start figuring in some of the charity and community work that companies like Amazon promote in the cities where they have a massive workforce.
When you start adding all of them together I don't see how a $7 billion dollar deal is bad. Hell, I haven't even figured in the construction jobs created by building their headquarters and all the tax revenue around that.
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