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The Linux Stimulus Package
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| I expect to see corporate tax breaks for those who:
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| 1. Implement Green Technology.
| 2. Use Open Source Software.
| 3. Give Something Back to the Open Source Community.
| 4. Continue to Innovate.
| 5. Create New Jobs.
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| [...]
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| What doesn't stimulate the economy?
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| 1. Offshore Outsourcing.
| 2. Giving More Money to Those Who've Wasted it Already.
| 3. Providing Tax Breaks to Those Who Aren't Paying Taxes.
| 4. Rewarding Greed.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4127.html
Yesterday:
‘Bridge to Microsoft’ Is One of Puget Sound Prizes in Stimulus
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| Microsoft Corp., which has $20 billion of cash in the bank, is among the
| first in the Puget Sound area to benefit from the investment in roads and
| bridges through President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan.
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| Local planners allotted $11 million of $214 million awarded to the region to
| help pay for a highway overpass in Redmond, Washington, connecting one part
| of Microsoft’s wooded campus with another. The world’s largest software maker
| will contribute almost half of the $36.5 million cost. Other federal and
| local money will pay the rest.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=MSFT%3AUS&sid=aT9qd5b61LgU
'Bridge to Microsoft' Gets Federal Stimulus Funds
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| "Among the first to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through
| Obama's stimulus plan is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Local
| planners have allotted $11M to help pay for a highway overpass to connect one
| part of Microsoft's wooded campus with another. Microsoft will contribute
| almost half of the $36.5M cost; other federal and local money will pay the
| rest. 'Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change,'
| griped Steve Ellis of the Taxpayers for Common Sense. 'Subsidizing an
| overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn't going
| to be the best use of our precious dollars.' Ellis called the project 'a
| bridge to Microsoft,' alluding to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere'."
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http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3760053
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