If you’ve ever wondered what it tastes like to lick Brad Smith’s asshole, just ask the editors at the Seattle Times:
THE state’s two biggest companies took a gamble on Washington a few years back, and at long last the state has finally paid off.
Back in 2011, Boeing and Microsoft pledged $25 million apiece for the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. The program, run by the College Success Foundation, defrays costs for low- and middle-income students when they major in science, technology, engineering, math and health at Washington colleges. Each student is eligible for as much as $17,000.
So Boeing and Microsoft save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in state tax breaks and tax loopholes—denying the state the funds necessary to adequately fund higher education and other crucial investments—and yet we should cheer them as civic heroes for spending a mere $25 million each (0.03 percent of their $164 billion in combined 2013 revenue) to subsidize educating their own workforce?
Hooray for capitalism!
The “gamble” Boeing and Microsoft took was that this feeble gesture would provide political cover for their roles in perpetuating the structural revenue deficit that undermines Washington’s K-12 and higher education systems as a whole. And it was a gamble that has paid off handsomely under the credulous watch of our state’s editorial boards.
So, about that $30M that Boeing just got done giving to one of Smithsonian’s museums…….
I guess that’s bad because they’ll get a tax break for doing so.
Boeing also has other places in which to donate money. LA Times, today:
http://www.latimes.com/busines.....z2yb4ix6ky
@1…
The guy sounds like a real neo-liberal/classical rat-bastard to me.
Yep, let us enjoy the scraps our masters occasionally throw us. Let us wag our tails and bark happily at the nice treats they give us! Such nice masters! What? Time to go back into my kennel cage? Ok! No problem. Nice masters. Such nice masters.
re 1: “I guess that’s bad because they’ll get a tax break for doing so.”
After the Katrina disaster former first lady Barbara Bush made a hefty charitable contribution to stricken school districts with the stipulation that the donated money be spent on her son Neil Bush’s educational software.
But: “I guess that’s bad because they’ll get a tax break for doing so.”
Here’s a tip that I got from reading Gerry Spence’s book, How to Win Every Argument: ‘Before using sarcasm as a tool, make sure you have enough facts so that it cannot be easily used to make you look foolish.’
I just made that up. But what the hell. WFB Jr used to do it all the time. I read that in the New York Times.
@ 4
Got it. Boeing needed a place to stash their junker planes so they donated to get a hangar built. You caught ’em.
Jeez, Goldy, why so greedy? Multinationals gotta eat too.
You humans don’t get it. Workers are obsolete. In the future, machines will do all the work, and capitalists will have all the money. The rest of you will be ground up for dog food.
@5 — “Got it. Boeing needed a place to stash their junker planes so they donated to get a hangar built. You caught ‘em.”
Or free PR showing how great they are. Is Microsoft storing old computers in the hangar?
You should change your screen name to Trout Boy because you are always rising to the bait.
“The rest of you will be ground up for dog food.”
They’ll have to save some of us as lackey’s to feed the dogs. I have a suspicion that as soon as they got rid of us, they’d start killing each other.
It’s in the blood.
Capitalism is dying…choking on its own vomit.