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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 parties: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/recipients?i...

Many 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.

One 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.

Or because they fear being targeted if they don’t contribute…

Targeted for what?

Targeted for not donating, I presume.

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