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Their employees still pay tax though. With tech wages as high as they are it is probably non-trivial amounts.

I am not advocating for big businesses evading tax mind you. Just suggesting it would probably still be a boon for the state tax income if a bunch of tech wages migrated to the NY tax base.

NY has city income tax too ranging from 2.907% to 3.876%

And also make less demands on the social services

The average salary was to be 150K, which I feel is likely to be well within the margin of a desire for minimization.

0 federal income tax for 2018.

They don't make that much money. their profit margins suck.

10.07 B net income in 2018 [1] is not my idea of "[not] mak[ing] that much money"

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn/financials

Which is precisely why I included the word "margin"