March 22, 2006
The tech industry notices that the Republicans are bad for it
Michael Kanellos reports that Silicon Valley is down on the Bush Administration, largely because of its lack of support for private or public technology research.
Well, duh. I endorsed John Kerry in a Computerworld column before the 2004 election. And anybody who’s seen the antiscientific attitudes of the Bush Administration in biological and environmental sciences shouldn’t be surprised that IT is getting short shrift too.
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Given that the Republican leadership, of which President Bush is clearly the leader, has pushed for making the R&D tax credit permanent, making the internet tax ban permanent, reforming the patent system, rewriting the 1996 telecommunication act, increased funding for math and science education (say what you want about NCLB but test scores in CA are moving up), and also opposed the expensing of stock options… I think Bush’s approval in the tech industry might have more to do with him than his policies.
On the R&D tax credit, which does serve as a powerful incentive for companies to invest here rather than abroad, Democrats have continually opposed making it permanent by calling it a gift for “rich companies”. Amazing when considering that even the dumbest Senator in Congress, Barbara Boxer, sponsered a resolution in the 106th Congress (with John Ashcroft co-sponsoring no less) calling for the R&D tax credit to be made permanent.