Great question!
All I know I made no where near this amount and I owe taxes.
I guess it really pays well to have good lobbyists.
Is it that you are an employee?
If so, earned income (W-2) is the highest taxed form of income.
Amazon is a business, not an employee.
Yup. And Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and the rest of these corporations are making out like bandits, while millions of middle class from high tax states are getting screwed. On top of that, those corporations getting Billion dollar windfalls hate Trump and Conservatives, while we Trump supporters are sent the bill to make up for lost cold pirate tax revenue.
Many of us repeated this problem (the elimination of capping of individual deductions to pay for slashing the corporate rate) last fall through December until we were blue in the face. No one would listen. I pre-paid some 2018 taxes so as to get less screwed by the IRS this April, but that is a band-aid on a gaping wound.
A friend of mine who owns an accounting and tax consultant business says that many of his contacts in Washington told him that the SALT issue will have to be revisited, because it screws over so many middle class families. But I am not holding my breath on that one.