This bit is the closest I found. Maybe I'm not an attentive reader, but I didn't find anything that says what the tweet claims, and the whole memo has a tone of injured victimhood and fairly careful language. Maybe the strategy was laid out in further events triggered by this?
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I'm sympathetic to the thrust of the argument, but it's kinda irresponsible to be throwing out unsupported claims of this sort into this fraught environment... basically oil on a fire
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There's a qualitative difference in both intent and substance though, between "let's cut tax support for universities" and "let's make college so expensive we create a system of debt bondage that won't dare rebel against corporations" ...
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yeah, the general hostile intention is there, as are standard whines about "balance" and "freedom" that continue to today
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I just see zero evidence of the kind of conspiracy the tweet suggests. In fact, the weak mechanisms suggested (speaker bureau, advertising, "equal time") are precisely the kind of brute-force thing business people think of when they *can't* think of an elegant leveraged strategy
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I'd guess the tax cutting was part of very generic cut social/boost military vs. boost social/cut military type partisan generic tax postures feeding into the natural dynamics of the baumol cost disease effect... "corporations" tend to be extremely dumb on strategy outside core
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In my experience, it is hard enough to get corporate strategy to pay attention and be machiavellian clever even about the stuff right in their core interests, so I incline towards hanlon's razor outside that core: stupidity (in this case stupid luck) over malice
