My colleague Scott Klein (@kleinmatic) tweeted about the Everett Herald's wonderful use of a bubble graph on its front page to help readers understand Washington State's growing $2B budget deficit.
Since I've been writing about the legal case against Microsoft's twelve-year $995 million tax dodge, I created a modified version of the bubble graph showing the impact of its tax practices on the state deficit:
You're an idiot for crusading for more taxes on Microsoft....are you trying to force one of the last well paying companies out of seattle. Stupid Bleeding Libert.
Posted by: You'reAnIdiot | 11/24/2009 at 01:21 PM
If you're going to post abusive comments, you might not want to do it from a Microsoft owned IP address http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=131.107.0.72
Posted by: Jeff | 11/24/2009 at 01:31 PM