Near-Bankrupt California Awards Hollywood $100M In Corporate Welfare
Remember folks, trickle-down economics only work in the entertainment business.
Remember folks, tax cuts for the rich are evil, unless it goes to rich people in Hollywood.
Remember folks, big business is greedy and corrupt and evil -- except for the big business of Hollywood.
In product, spoken word, and political
endorsement, Hollywood assails itself without naming itself. Tax cuts
for me but not for thee, and now taxpayers in the near-bankrupt state of
California are on the hook for
a cool $100 million that will feather the nest of movie stars, fat studios, and gajillioniare producers everywhere:
Most people would never accuse
President Obama of memorizing Milton Friedman under the covers at
night. Yet the patron saint
of laissez-faire probably would not take as much
exception as many Republicans have to Obama’s comment
in Roanoke three weeks ago that “if you’ve got a business
– you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
