Employees' taxes pay for government services that they use. Separately from that, Amazon as an entity [0] is dependent on government services - it ships goods u

Employees' taxes pay for government services that they use. Separately from that, Amazon as an entity [0] is dependent on government services - it ships goods using public roads and airports, its data centers rely on the public electricity grid, its buildings and shipping routes are protected by the $600 bn/year US military, etc. Amazon's shareholders - some of whom aren't US citizens and don't individually pay tax to the US government - shouldn't be able to take advantage of those resources to generate profit without helping to pay for them. [0] Replace "Amazon as an entity" with "Amazon's shareholders" or "the resources that Amazon's shareholders own and use to generate profit" if you prefer.