Amazon doesn't owe anything to Seattle or Washington leadership. The state and in particular the City has become extremely hostile toward business, with
one Marxist radical on the Council in particular that is extremely, extremely hostile toward business, and Amazon in particular. She has called for workers to overtake Amazon and turn it into a democratically worker-controlled enterprise. She has insinuated Amazon is to blame for Seattle's homelessness. The state recently imposed mandatory paid family leave, the City passed an illegal "tax the rich" income tax, and now Sawant acuses Amazon of "holding us hostage" by being willing to leave.
Seattle is electing insane Marxists to lead the community, and they are completely and entirely attacking their very own economic backbone with this psychotically anti-business policies and rhetoric.
Even if you agree with Marxism, you're an idiot if you think it can be implemented on a municipal level without encouraging a downward spiral of capital flight. And Sawant, allegedly being an economics PhD, should certainly know better. All her Marxist rhetoric is moronic given that she's affecting city policy, not national and international policy. Even the most liberal of Seattleites who love Sawant should vote her the hell out if they have half a brain, because she is incurring maximum damage to the city with her half-cocked Marxism.