"One of the Ayn Rand's perfectly depicted Atlas Shrugged looters must have ghost written the column that appeared under your byline in today's S.F. Comical."
The above was sent by the writer of much that appears on this blog to the author of a column that appeared during the past week in San Francisco's major leftirckle media outlet and dealt with Apple Computer's plans to consolidate and expand its facilities in Cupertino, California.
The column criticized the Cupertino city council for having been wowed by Apple's magnificent plan. Nor did the column express appreciation or gratitude that Apple, instead of joining the business and job exodus from the state, was staying put and even expanding in its home town. The writer didn't even mention or recognize the state's hostile business climate or its effects.
No, not a bit of that. The gist of the column is captured by its headline:
City should tell Apple to work for its approval
and it contained the following perfect expression of the mindset of
statist looters:
Apple posted revenue of $65 billion in its last fiscal year, with
profit of $14 billion. Couldn't it fork over a few mill to provide
Free Internet access to its citizens, much like the city offers its
streets and emergency services to Apple's employees?
The city's streets and emergency services are, of course, not free.
As the largest taxpaying contributor to the city's coffers, Apple
pays for those services, as its president noted in his comments to
the city council:
On the subject of Wi-Fi, Jobs said: "I'm a simpleton. I've always
had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do those
things. If we can get out of paying taxes, I'd be glad to put up
Wi-Fi."
That, of course is not how the journalouse with the looter mindset
sees it. Because Apple made what appears to him to be a great
deal of money, he cavalierly suggests that the city demand "a few
mill."
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