Nothing about the TAXPAYER SUBSIDIES for a PROFITABLE INDUSTRY in this AGENDA-PUSHING FRONT-PAGE PIECE!
Which is INTERESTING because it came ONE DAY AFTER the DENIAL!!!
Sometimes the AGENDA-PUSHING is SOOOOOO OBVIOUS!!!
"A movie boom's special effect; The rise of Mass. filmmaking means opportunities for local creative teams - like bringing Alaska home" by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff | June 12, 2009
All those special effects being necessary, you'd assume they'd be done in California by an FX giant, like Industrial Light and Magic or Digital Domain.
Actually, they were created up a flight of creaky stairs in an old brick building near the intersection of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue....
That great opportunity is the ongoing boom in local filmmaking that followed the 2006 implementation of tax incentives for in-state film productions.
Yeah, and it is COSTING the STATE TAXPAYERS about a BILLION a YEAR all told!!!!!
Of course, WE DON'T NEED that $$$ for SCHOOLS or HEALTH or ANYTHING!!!!
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
"We expected the film tax credit would spark growth in the surrounding industries - and Brickyard is a prime example of that," said Jason Schupbach, creative economy industry director of the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, in a phone interview....
We DON'T NEED that kind of "growth!"
And HOW MANY JOBS to OFFSET the LOSS of TENS of THOUSANDS?
That people infrastructure (there are 38 visual effects people credited on "The Proposal") largely consists of recent Emerson, Northeastern, Boston University, and Museum School graduates....
Pffffftttt!
I'm walking out of the theater right now!
You can stay if you want to, readers.
