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Keeping Microsoft Happy
Jeff writes "In Citizen Microsoft, I report on Microsoft's use of Nevada corporations to avoid approximately $327 million in Washington state taxes while telling voters they need to pay more to fund education. I also contrast Microsoft's attacks on the open source community with its in-state lobbying efforts and its recent promise to get more involved in local politics. The cover has Gates in a gorilla suit."
I CERTIANLY DON'T AND YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER!
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Leave it alone you Linux ZEALOT BULLIES!!!!
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submitter didn't read the article it has no solid proof of any wrongdoing on microsoft's part...just speculation and hearsay...Give me more than just circumstantial evidence before you level such unfounded accusations...
You cant argue that Bill gates is smart. He is a complete geinous. M$ on the other hand has horrable morals, and couldn't write a stable OS if their money depended on it (and of course it doesent).
I hope your resume is up2date. Even writers in offbeat weekly get their chains yanked...
No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
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Microsoft's use of Nevada corporations to avoid approximately $327 million in Washington state taxes while telling voters they need to pay more to fund education
Since when are corporations supposed to fund education?
How about the corporations keep what they earn, and people pay for things as they need them?
It seems like a scam, for the state to tax everyone as much as it wants to pay for an education in a non-competitive market - if you send your kids to private school, you've still got to pay taxes to pay for the public schools you didn't want your kids to go to in the first place. No government has ever done a very good job trying to run schools, so why is Washington even in this business?