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Yale, like much of US higher ed, is even more dependent on Federal spending and government tax breaks than ostensibly private firms like Lockheed Martin or Rayt
by linksnapzz 5y ago
Yale, like much of US higher ed, is even more dependent on Federal spending and government tax breaks than ostensibly private firms like Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, who make products that only the government can buy.
It's not like it's Choate or Groton or St. George's highschool, where tuition and gifts need to cover expenses (and are still tax-free).
- tssva 5y agoRaytheon, Lockheed Martin and Yale are all private sector organizations. Being largely dependent on government spending and tax breaks does not make you a public sector organization.
- linksnapzz 5y agoBeing largely dependent on government spending and tax breaks does not make you a public sector organization. True in only the most reductive and naive sense; but this is the sort of mistake that ostensibly private orgs like the ones above count on, in order to avoid the kind of scrutiny & accountability that an explicitly public agency must endure.
- tssva 5y agoIf by reductive and naive sense you mean by the actual definition of private vs public sector.
- linksnapzz 5y agoIf it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....