Let's do lunch and tax breaks for Hollywood? (Fork over $100 mill or we go to Canada)

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 16, 2002 | Daniel Weintraub

[John Jorsett]

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping -- for tax breaks.

Employing a time-honored tactic of American business, the Hollywood studios, actors and directors are asking the Legislature for a $100 million tax cut to keep them from fleeing to Canada.

[Lockbox]

This from the group which wants others to pay their 'fair' share of taxes to support every lib program. What a$$holes...........

[Nachum]

The California state legislature, which just happens to be in Sacramento is a total mess. The Sacramento Bee is a total mess for that matter. The legislature finally decides to reduce taxes on someone or something and the shmucks at the Sacramento Bee can't abide by it.

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[John Jorsett]

I'm in favor of tax reductions, but not these 'targeted' ones to powerful or favored groups. Targeted tax breaks just muck up the tax code and leave the rest of us to pick up the difference. And I'm particularly opposed to givng anything at all to a group that collectively cheerleads every liberal idea that comes along, and most especially higher taxes (for the rest of us).

[Tacis]

Always check to see how (not "if") Blackout Davis, his friends, relatives, supporters, or associates profit from any proposed government action in California. Here, one obvious way is based on the fact that foreign production is cheaper because the industry unions are so powerful and the cost of their members, those who actually work and those who are paid but do nothing, is so high.

The politicians want to continue to enjoy the support, financial and otherwise, of these unions and their democrat members and are willing to have a portion of what they extort from management to be paid by the peons of the public.

[Nachum]

You are never going to get a collective tax decrease from the socialists in Sacramento. If a targeted tax reduction is all I can get, than I am all for it.

If you want to wait a decade or two for your idea of a fair tax decrease, than you go right ahead on your own. I live in California. I will take what I can get right now from the Sacramento socialistas.

[John Jorsett]

If you want to wait a decade or two for your idea of a fair tax decrease, than you go right ahead on your own. I live in California. I will take what I can get right now from the Sacramento socialistas.

That's where I live too, and I'm certainly not getting any tax cuts. Giving the movie industry (or cola bottling plants, or koi farmers, or widget makers) a break isn't going to benefit me unless I'm in one of the favored groups. I agree that we're not likely to get general tax relief out of Sacramento. Probably the initiative process is the only way. Thank God for Prop 13, though; it's requirement of a 2/3 majority vote for tax increases is the only reason taxes aren't even worse than they are.

[MissAmericanPie]

Amazing iddinit, they should have their bluff called, there is no Rodeo Drive in Canada.

[Nachum]

Amen to that. Thank the one above for prop 13.

I think they were trying to sleaze their way around it in some hokey legislation in our last election though.

[dighton]

For all I care, they can grab a one-way ticket to Greenland.

[John Jorsett]

In the last election they managed to get the requirement for passage of bond issues dropped from 2/3 vote of the people to 55%. That opened the floodgates. Expect to see a boatload of bond issues on the November ballot. And bigger property tax bills the day after the election when they pass.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Good bye Movie industry-don't let the door hit you in the @$$ on your way to Canada!, and don't bother sending your crappy movies back here, we would rather sit on the porch and watch the seasons change.

[nothingnew]

the Hollywood studios, actors and directors are asking the Legislature for a $100 million tax cut to keep them from fleeing to Canada.

Good.

I don't give a rats arse where they go, as long as they go...99.9% of the stuff they put out is crap anyways..."Don't go away mad...just go away".

FMCDH

[CyberAnt]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Let the idiots leave - we don't need their liberal gunk anyway!!

[Nachum]

The movie business accounts for a huge chunk of the economy of the state of California. Besides being a profitable business, it employs a tremendous number of working class people.

If you want to see the motion picture industry leave the US than you can say goodbye to all the business it means to this state too. The average actor in Hollywood is not the star, but the bit player who makes a working living that way. Not only the actors, but the grips, set builders, film processing, equipment rental and handling, food services, truck drivers, book keepers, wardrobe handlers, and on and on. Literally tens of thousands of people's livelyhoods are at stake here, not to mention the people outside the industry who make their living from these people.

You don't care about this business? Believe me, if it died and we lost the income from it, you would soon learn to.

[VOA]

Let's do lunch and tax breaks for Hollywood? (Fork over $100 mill or we go to Canada)

The Hollywood crowd is just trying to reduce their expenses and maximize their profits.

I remember reading an interview with some Hollywood type. He started talking
about how Dennis Hopper is really good at bringing his productions in "on time and under budget".
The interviewee mused something like "Some of us are starting to think Dennis may be a Republican!".

Like Charleton Heston says "there are more conservatives in the closet in
Hollywood than homosexuals".

[nothingnew]

You could say that about any major business..Steel, auto, gas/oil, health, on and on....the threat is theirs, not mine.

They need tax cuts or they leave?.....LEAVE...and that goes for the above mentined also.

FMCDH

[Thumper1960]

Good bye Hollywierd.

In every economy, there is change. So Hollywierd propagandists wish to leave if they don't get tax breaks? Tough! It will take an economic meltdown in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia to effect massive change. We can start with showing the so-called "creative community" the door.

[Nachum]

Interesting. And what if it were to occur in your state, and in your business? Would you be as glib?