Alternate Headline: "Industry" with minimal economic footprint and impact threatens to leave and couches the argument that doing so will have massive economic consequences.
Except... The entertainment industry's own publications say there's not much economic impact to having film production in your state.
This is something I've read about before.
Disney-MGM Studios from the early 1990's in Orlando is such a tale.
In one of the few times Tallahassee has stood up to The Mouse they refused to grant or extend the tax credits demanded by the ex-pat branches of Hollywood.
Film production in Florida pretty much stopped.
Florida, as a whole, did not notice.
Much of the Florida production moved to the Atlanta area, where it's having the same economic impact as it did here, not much.
Why doesn't Hollywood's presence and spending have much effect on the local economy?
Because they don't pay for things they use so much of the time.
They demand to be charged no taxes, they convince businesses to donate rather than sell, they gather volunteers rather than employees... The money moves around incestuously among the companies dedicated to the production of films and television and rarely leaks back out to where you or I would see its effects. Gulfstream notices, but they're not based in Georgia, are they?
I am additionally amused by liberals condemning automakers for moving their business to The South for economic reasons related to taxes and not condemning Hollywood for doing much the same thing.
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The film industry in Florida didn't get their tax incentives, so they started crawling up I-75. They bypassed Marion County because of icky Republicans, and came to Alachua County, where a big studio project was presented by I-75 west of Gainesville. Even the idjits in Alachua County wouldn't bend over backwards to the Hollyweirdos, so they ended up in Atlanta.
ReplyDeleteCuriously, with Big Hollywood threatening the Georgia Film Industry, the companies most likely to lose and lose big from the boycott would be... Black Film companies. So leftist Hollywood pukes once again are threatening minorities.
Interesting that Ron Howard is quite willing to support the boycott, after he finishes up all current productions in Georgia. In a few years. Way to stand up for your convictions, Opie! (What a douchenozzle...)
All southern states have thriving production businesses, in film and television, that don't result from bending over backwards with tax incentives, payoffs and handjobs. Hollyweird has, by their own actions, become mostly irrevelant (yes, Blogger, that is a real word, jerks) to good entertainment.
Irrelevant or irrevelant! The meaning is the same!
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