Moore Receives Tax Credits To Bash Tax Handouts?
Beltway Confidential remarks on a new report that Michael Moore obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in film tax credits when he filmed “Capitalism: A Love Story.” According to the report, liberal...
View ArticleHow Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Benefited from Crony Capitalism
Carten Cordell and Kathryn Watson note that state tax incentives for film production amount to little more than preferential treatment of the film industry. Behind the scenes, policy analysts and...
View ArticleFilm Credits More Blooper Reel than Blockbuster
The Commonwealth Foundation points out that one of the main arguments for film tax credits, that the tax credit is necessary to bring film production to the state, doesn’t play out. In fact, most...
View ArticleWyoming: Film Subsidy Follies
Maureen Bader at the Wyoming Liberty Group writes about the state’s film incentive program: In the 2013-14 budget, Film Wyoming has an appropriation of $900,000 from a general fund (which,...
View ArticleHow Walt Disney Cashes In on Corporate Welfare
Yaël Ossowski writes an article for Reason explaining how Disney is among a certain group of businesses advocating for the special tax provisions for the film industry: According to the latest lobbying...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism Is The Norm In A French Film Industry Shielded From Free...
Sylvain Charat writes an article in Forbes about the French film industry, and how cronyism has caused it to be unsuccessful: French government agencies are funding the arts, culture, and the movie...
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Film Subsidies, Tax Dollars, and Barbeque Sauce
When you go to the movie theater, do you go to watch a movie or to buy BBQ sauce? That sounds like a strange question, but consider the following story. Warren Theaters in Wichita, Kansas, is now...
View ArticleA guaranteed flop for Mass: Why tax giveaways for Broadway-bound shows won’t...
Jeff Jacoby writes an opinion piece at the Boston Globe about tax preferences given to businesses in Massachusetts, how they’ve failed in the past, and why a new proposal to subsidize Broadway shows...
View ArticleLEFT AND RIGHT AGREE: FILM SUBSIDIES WON’T CREATE ‘USEFUL INDUSTRY’ IN SILVER...
The Nevada Policy Research Institute recently reported the truth concerning film subsidies; they do not help economic long-term growth. Recent studies by the tax foundation have found that although...
View ArticleNew Mexico Senate approves ‘Breaking Bad’ rebate measure
Dan Boyd at the ABQ Journal in New Mexico writes about recent legislation aimed to provide benefits to filmmakers in the state, a policy that has failed elsewhere: Backers of the legislation say it...
View ArticleNY: A Tax Break for the 0.01%
A Wall Street Journal article highlights a specific tax break for…television program? Empire State Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature have helped to grease the show’s eastward move with a...
View ArticleNevada’s biennial season of special interests
What does a legislature do during a once-in-two-years legislative session? Help special interests! That’s what happened in Nevada, where the state created a subsidy for the film industry and guaranteed...
View ArticleHow Hollywood Is Ripping Off Taxpayers
Eileen Norcross, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, discusses the fallacies with film tax credit incentives. States are realizing net losses on these types of incentives, yet state...
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