Well one such example of different tax treatment would be professional such as lawyers. At least in my state lawyers are exempt from charging/collecting State

Well one such example of different tax treatment would be professional such as lawyers. At least in my state lawyers are exempt from charging/collecting State sales tax for our services. But there is a major difference in the legislature passing a law exempting certain types of businesses from charging/collecting sales tax vs opaque, back room dealing to carve out special taxes for a single company. It was just recent a post made it to the front page regarding the proposed BEZOS Act for large companies to reimburse the Federal Government for federal welfare subsidies low wage workers receive. Even though the proposed Act didn’t actually single out Amazon, they were used as an example as well as Walmart of companies that would fit into this legal framework. Still many here in HN screamed Bill of Attainder. I disagree (and personally like the spirit legislation). I do think this is distinguishable, because obviously this is a personalized tax deal made for one company. Of course if this is constitutional for cities/states to just create individual tax deals, maybe all those other cities who got played by Amazon should take a que and go ahead and create a personalized tax deal for Amazon and tax the ever living shit out of Amazon so they effectively can do business in their jurisdiction.