"Workers take action to launch film careers; With 2 Mass. studios planned, training programs expand to teach production skills" by Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff | August 19, 2009
CAMBRIDGE - Film industry executives attribute part of that growth to the 2006 tax credit for local film productions. The program underwrites a quarter of a movie production company’s costs with the idea that the filmmakers will hire Bay State workers and spur economic growth. However, production companies aren’t required to hire a certain number of Massachusetts workers. And according to a report released last month by the Department of Revenue, Massachusetts only gets 16 cents for every dollar spent on the incentives....
Translation: You are LOSING a PILE of TAX LOOT to PROFITABLE HOLLYWOOD while YOUR SERVICES are GUTTED while COPS, FIREMAN, and TEACHERS are being LAID OFF!
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How many times I gotta put 'em up?
But it's ALL GOOD to the GLOBE!!!
Massachusetts’ flourishing film industry.
“There’s a tremendous amount of positions for people in the film industry in Boston,’’ said Adam Greene, a former student and current instructor at Future Media Concepts, which recently moved into a new 3,000-square-foot facility - double the size of its former site. “You are seeing a lot of Massachusetts residents taking advantage of becoming assets to the film industry.’’
Two proposed studios, tax incentives for in-state productions, and a booming film industry are combining to create more opportunities for local workers....
By LOOTING the TAXPAYERS?
“The more movies we get, the more workers are required, the more infrastructure is needed and, therefore, the more jobs are created,’’ said Nicholas Paleologos, executive director of the Massachusetts Film Office, which estimates $452 million was generated from movies filmed here last year....
I'm so sick of self-serving agenda-pushing liars and the self-serving jewspapers agenda-pushing, folks.
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