{"id":128,"date":"2008-02-06T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2008\/02\/06\/microsofts-huge-tax-break\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:31:27","slug":"microsofts-huge-tax-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2008\/02\/06\/microsofts-huge-tax-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s huge tax break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article makes me sick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscut.com\/microsoft\/11167\/Microsoft's+%24528+million+Washington+tax+break\/\">accusing Microsoft of a $528 million tax break<\/a> because they make products in the state of Washington but &quot;sell&quot; them in Nevada, where there is no corporate tax.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just disgusting. The poor, small business owner can&#8217;t afford to pull off a trick like that or doesn&#8217;t know how, but the behemoths can and do (Microsoft, I&#8217;m sure, is not the only one). And thus the monopolies grow. <\/p>\n<p>What kind of tax system could prevent these kinds of situations?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right;\"><small><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\">Qumana<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article makes me sick, accusing Microsoft of a $528 million tax break because they make products in the state of Washington but &quot;sell&quot; them in Nevada, where there is no corporate tax. That&#8217;s just disgusting. The poor, small business owner can&#8217;t afford to pull off a trick like that or doesn&#8217;t know how, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal-reflections","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}