[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.

[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.

[NapaCA]

Calm down, they're not going *anywhere*... they *already* film on locations outside CA... it's the management, the pre and post production, that's done in LA... and those people are *not* moving to Canada, not matter *how* many times Baldwin and Co. promise us they will...

I say raise their taxes.