It's been nearly a week since Amazon announced that it had chosen Long Island City as one of the locations for its new headquarters.

And after a steady drumbeat of criticism for the lucrative tax breaks the company was offered, Governor Cuomo seemed to throw fuel on the fire Monday morning when he wrote a self-published op-ed lashing out at critics, from both sides of the aisle.

"The extreme conservatives and the socialists both now vehemently oppose incentives for Amazon," Cuomo wrote. He then went on the radio to defend the $2.8 billion in incentives.

"Welcome to America. Everyday states compete for businesses. We feel the brunt of it because we have the highest tax rates in the country,” Cuomo said. “So we have other states like Texas, Florida calling our companies every day, literally, and trying to seduce them to their states based on taxes."

Cuomo also took some time to attack the media, including newspaper editorial boards that have raised concerns about the Amazon deal.

"The voices that oppose giving Amazon tax breaks, New York Times, New York Post, they themselves get the best tax breaks," Cuomo said.

While numerous complaints have been raised about Amazon being a wealthy company that didn't need tax breaks, some unions are more focused on Amazon's labor policy, saying the company has an abysmal record when it comes to letting their employees unionize.

"If you look at their experiences and how the people have tried to represent their voices by organizing workers in their fulfillment centers, in their manufacturing sites, they are incredibly anti-union. Incredibly insidious,” RWDSU Political Director Camille Rivera said.

While the legislature may have some hope to scuttle the Amazon deal by blocking grants through an obscure board that meets out of public view in Albany, the Cuomo Administration is now saying they don't need to run any of the money past what is known as the Public Authorities Control Board, setting up a potential showdown with the legislature.