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Posted: 12/18/2023 8:43:30 PM EDT
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Audit Report A new audit of Georgia's Film Tax Credit program found that the state "loses money" on the program. A lot of money, actually: about $160,000 for every job the program creates. Georgia is now spending about $1.3 billion annually on the program, but it generates a return on investment of just 19 cents per dollar, the auditors conclude. "This program should be halted immediately," J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Georgia's Kennesaw State University and a longtime critic of government subsidy schemes, posted on X (formerly Twitter). In a 2020 paper, Bradbury estimated that the state's film tax credit program cost about $110,000 per full-time job created and that every Georgia household was on the hook for about $230 in additional taxes every year because of the program's existence. In addition to highlighting the tax credit program's costs, the new audit also suggests that the film industry has inflated the supposed benefits of the program. Georgia's film tax credit is responsible for creating about 34,000 jobs annually in the state, according to the new audit, but that's well short of the 59,700 annual job-creation figure that a recent industry-funded study claimed, reported Variety. |
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Posted: 12/18/2023 8:54:04 PM EDT
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My shocked face
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Posted: 12/18/2023 9:36:34 PM EDT
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Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake.
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Posted: 12/18/2023 11:27:22 PM EDT
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Was hoping those clowns would leave when they got all worked up over the state abortion changes the other year.
Guess the money was too good, as usual. End corporate welfare. |
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Posted: 12/19/2023 5:28:09 AM EDT
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Does this mean Tyler Perry will have to film movies somewhere else??
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Posted: 12/19/2023 10:05:18 AM EDT
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Surprise
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Posted: 12/19/2023 10:34:23 AM EDT
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What percentage to the "big guy" Governor? He should be rich enough off Dominion.
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Posted: 12/19/2023 8:22:04 PM EDT
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I've got a minor speaking role in four scenes of an alien horror flick which is currently scheduled to begin shooting in March.
I'm not getting paid so don't get pissed when I'm accepting my academy award. 
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Posted: 12/19/2023 10:43:27 PM EDT
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Should look into what Cali charges. Do about 50% of that.
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Posted: 12/20/2023 2:55:28 PM EDT
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Some of those jobs the film industry does create are low paying extra jobs and short term. Some outside catering jobs are not long term either. Then you have the union jobs which are basically a closed shop with only established members getting work.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 4:59:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dawggs4: Should look into what Cali charges. Do about 50% of that. Even doing the same as Cali would be an improvement. 
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Posted: 12/21/2023 8:30:15 AM EDT
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The state would be a lot less of a swing state within a few years if we pushed them out. I'd be happy to see them go.
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Posted: 12/21/2023 3:00:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By manderson1911: Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake. Senioa is a prime example. Nice little town south of atlanta. Nobody really went there for anything. Fried Green Tomatoes was filmed there. Other than that nothing. Then The Talking Walking Dead. Now the whole area has exploded and housing is basically unaffordable for the average person. A guy I know that lives around there was hoping the end of filming would stop the stupid. IT didn't. 
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Posted: 12/25/2023 9:31:16 PM EDT
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Shut it down, and hopefully some of the leftist twats will go home as well.
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Posted: 12/26/2023 9:53:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: Shut it down, and hopefully some of the leftist twats will go home as well. Wishful thinking. Coming from NY or CA to GA is like escaping from Cuba to S. FL. Difference is, the Cubans appreciate the freedoms and opportunities while our transplants bitch about “how it was done back in X.” |
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Posted: 12/27/2023 2:08:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ATLDiver: Wishful thinking. Coming from NY or CA to GA is like escaping from Cuba to S. FL. Difference is, the Cubans appreciate the freedoms and opportunities while our transplants bitch about “how it was done back in X.” Most of the people I've met from those places that are here now seem to be the right kind of people. Only one I told he should go home was a coworker who kept talking about socialism being the answer to poverty. He was a traveller working at Vogtle and only worked with us about a month then we laid him off. Don't know where he is now. |
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Posted: 12/28/2023 10:20:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By manderson1911: Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake. Kemp was dumb for pushing it............he was warned repeatedly |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 12:37:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: Kemp was dumb for pushing it............he was warned repeatedly Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: Originally Posted By manderson1911: Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake. Kemp was dumb for pushing it............he was warned repeatedly Deal is the reason Hollywood is in GA. ETA: I should clarify Perdue started them and Deal pushed them hard enough that Hollywood started moving in while killing things like RIFRA and campus carry to please the left. |
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Posted: 12/29/2023 9:54:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Coffin-Nail: Deal is the reason Hollywood is in GA. ETA: I should clarify Perdue started them and Deal pushed them hard enough that Hollywood started moving in while killing things like RIFRA and campus carry to please the left. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Coffin-Nail: Originally Posted By cyclone: Originally Posted By manderson1911: Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake. Kemp was dumb for pushing it............he was warned repeatedly Deal is the reason Hollywood is in GA. ETA: I should clarify Perdue started them and Deal pushed them hard enough that Hollywood started moving in while killing things like RIFRA and campus carry to please the left. Kemp also has his part in the whole game.....he could have put a stop to most of it, but like Deal and Perdue he doesn't care |
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Posted: 1/8/2024 7:23:24 AM EDT
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I can hardly wait for the film industry late-cycle economic outputs as observed in California such as the proliferation of street pooping, homeless encampments.
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Posted: 3/18/2024 2:11:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By manderson1911: Allowing these clowns into this state from the word go was a mistake. |
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Posted: 3/18/2024 6:28:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack-of-Hearts: I've got a minor speaking role in four scenes of an alien horror flick which is currently scheduled to begin shooting in March. I'm not getting paid so don't get pissed when I'm accepting my academy award. I'll vote for you lol. Let us know when it's out. I always wanted to just be in a movie, not as a main character but as someone you see in the back, I guess those are "extras". Just so when I'm gone, family members can pop a movie in and see me. You'll live forever now. |
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Posted: 3/18/2024 11:33:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: Kemp also has his part in the whole game.....he could have put a stop to most of it, but like Deal and Perdue he doesn't care |
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Posted: 3/19/2024 2:28:58 PM EDT
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Lionsgate just finished a giant new studio in Douglas county set to start operating this year from what I read. Lionsgate has mega money and power so I wonder what kinds of tax credits they got.
Will our state government do anything about it? Hmm...I want to hope so but the realist in me says probably not. |
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Posted: 3/19/2024 4:07:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brandi: Lionsgate just finished a giant new studio in Douglas county set to start operating this year from what I read. Lionsgate has mega money and power so I wonder what kinds of tax credits they got. Will our state government do anything about it? Hmm...I want to hope so but the realist in me says probably not. It's a huge facility, acres and acres of it. Some of it may be open but there is still a lot of construction going on there. |
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Posted: 3/20/2024 6:14:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brandi: Lionsgate just finished a giant new studio in Douglas county set to start operating this year from what I read. Lionsgate has mega money and power so I wonder what kinds of tax credits they got. Will our state government do anything about it? Hmm...I want to hope so but the realist in me says probably not. Not really. Georgia Lawmakers Propose Modest Changes to State Film Tax Credits |
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Posted: 3/25/2024 5:11:32 PM EDT
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That answers that.
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Posted: 4/15/2024 5:22:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jason280: Does this mean Tyler Perry will have to film movies somewhere else?? That wouldnt be a bad thing |
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