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I would have pulled the plug too, if I were Amazon. Why would anyone want to establish their business where there already are sky high business taxes in place? Maybe if they give you some tax incentives to bring their high taxes in line with other places. But if this location you are considering also has a bunch of loud activists and politicians actively opposing you because they don't want to give you those tax incentives to help offset their high tax rates, why bother? Just find a better, more accommodating place. Like Amazon decided to do.
As I said in an earlier post, I really don't care how New York runs their city/state. Amazon can end up wherever Amazon wants to end up. I'm fine with any outcome. But saying it wasn't New Yorks choice and it was Amazon that pulled the plug may be technically correct to some degree, but very misleading. Amazon pulled the plug because of New Yorks choices. I think any sane business would have done the same. For some of the same reasons you aren't seeing many businesses rushing to set up shop in Venezuela these days. Can you blame them? Can you blame Amazon for discarding New York?
Elections have consequences. Whether you consider this Amazon consequence to be a good thing or a bad thing for New York does not change the fact that it is indeed a direct consequence of their election choices. If citizens don't like the results of their choices, change your choices. If they like the results, stick with your choices.
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