Welcome to the leviathan state were politics are in every business and every action. Amazon might be to angling to gain a key vote to avoid sales tax on the internet, or to avoid being forced into a labor union. Amazon must be politically shrewd or risk being the next victim of the leviathan like Gibson Guitar or Bella Hardwoods. Hate the tyranny, not those trying to navigate within it.
If you have any understanding of how Corporate America works these days, then you know this moves likely comes from the attorneys in the Risk-Management Department, as much as it does the boardroom.
If some nutjob shoots up someplace while flying a confederate flagbought on Amazon, they could face tens of millions of dollars in potential liability, or at the least, spending millions fighting it and the bad press.
In the corporate world, in the fundamentally-changed litigious Amerika, it’s just cheaper and easier to say no, than to take any risk.
WHY do you think so many companies are relocating operations out of America? This is but just one of the reasons.