[ Thanks to Jeff
Reifman for this link. ]
After seeing The Corporation, a documentary about the rising
power and abuse of power by corporations, I pitched the article to
the Seattle Weekly framed as a question: ‘What type of citizen is
Microsoft?’ and I began investigating.“As I learned more about the magnitude of Microsoft’s Washington
state tax avoidance coupled with its manipulation of the
Legislature and taxpayers with regards to piracy and education, I
became more upset than I expected…”
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