Big Tech’s California Tax Deals Pit Have-Not Cities Versus Haves (Correct)

Exit Highway 99 at Mountain View Avenue in California’s Central Valley and drive east past the flat expanse of stone fruit and citrus orchards, fields of grapes that will become raisins, and the occasional packing house.

Nine miles ahead, the gray-and-blue Best Buy warehouse emerges out of nowhere at the Dinuba city limits. At slightly more than 1 million square feet, it dwarfs the nearby shopping center anchored by a Walmart Supercenter — at least five of which would fit inside the warehouse.

Best Buy has been in Dinuba for 17 years, employing around 370 workers, but seven ...