FOLLOW THE MONEY: Microsoft’s Plan To Cash In On Common Core

The Daily Caller reports:

No great American philanthropist ever got to be a great American philanthropist without first becoming a great American business tycoon.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is no different, and now The Washington Post has reported that his company conveniently stands to make a ton of cash from the implementation of Common Core in public school classrooms across America — largely at the expense of taxpayers.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has used up over $200 million in an effort to push the Common Core Standards Initiative in the last couple years.

On the Microsoft Web site, a webpage dated April 22, 2014 entitled “Tech Essentials for Testing Success” describes in considerable detail how schools using computer-based, Common Core-aligned tests will now need to spend a bunch of money — on Microsoft products.

Bill Gates becomes the master rent-seeker using his foundation to help line his pockets. Nothing like promoting an inheritance tax while your wealth is being sheltered by the Gates Foundation.