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> Microsoft may want lower taxes from Republicans, but they also want easier immigration and gay rights from Democrats. That's probably why they donate to both
by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> Microsoft may want lower taxes from Republicans, but they also want easier immigration and gay rights from Democrats.
That's probably why they donate to both parties: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/recipients?id=D000000115 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/recipients?i...
- smt88 5y agoOne could also argue that they donate to both parties because they want to have influence over whomever wins any election. It may be totally divorced from ideology.
- MaysonL 5y agoOr because they fear being targeted if they don’t contribute…
- smt88 5y agoTargeted for what?
- solarengineer 5y agoTargeted for not donating, I presume.
- chewbacha 5y agoMany times I see people cite these statistics as if they are the actions of the company. However. 90% of those donations are from individuals that work for Microsoft and list Microsoft as an employer. It’s cited towards the bottom of the page. I think that this mostly tells us that there exists a decent number of politically active employees and that a large majority of those donate to democrats. The remaining 9% of the donations are PACs which would have their own disclosures. I couldn’t find reference on that page for which PACs Microsoft is donating too though and which party those PACs are donating to.