Timothy Birdnow

Donald Trump wants a tax credit for Hollywood in an amazingly myopic display of misguided MAGA.

After consulting with conservative actor Jon Voight President Trump decided to offer a tax credit to the Hollywood insider industry since Canada and others are doing the same. But it's foolish; Hollywood is in the position the American auto industry was in back in the seventies, putting out junk products and not responding to consumer demand. Competition from Toyota and Nissan and other foreign car makers forced the American auto industry to up their game. All this will do is enrich the fat cats in Hollywood who will double down on their woke DEI filmmaking.

This article emphasizes Canada and other overseas nations giving tax credits and thus having films made there, but if that is the problem the solution is obvious; other American states can do likewise and Trump's job should be to find places in the U.S. willing to offer incentives and tax breaks and encourage those. My home state of Missouri was making such a bid a while back. So too were a number of other states such as Georgia.

A while back I rewatched the television show Fringe. The producers of Fringe were lured to Canada by low taxes but were quickly disabused; they shot the pilot with a number of outdoor scenes and it was supposed to be summer on the show but it was 23* below zero outside. The cast nearly suffered frostbite. The crew were in heated tents as long as possible but it was simply unacceptable working conditions. That's what you get in Canada in winter - and the summers are just too short to shoot a full television series.

So why shouldn't, say, Virginia be a film hub, or Missouri? If you need beaches Texas is fine - and they have the Hill Country for mountains if you want those.

But California? Meh! Yes, it's lovely and you can find mountains within easy reach of the ocean, but all you get out of them is internationalist claptrap.

A lot of the problem too in California is that they tailor their movies and shows for export to China, who have strict censorship guidelines. You cannot make a movie with the Chinese as bad guys, for instance, and export it to China. You have to promote their values. So Hollywood, the Great Harlot, fills our movies and television shows with Chinese propaganda.

So that is the unholy trinity - China, Canada, and Hollywood. Saving Hollywood is like propping up the U.S.S.R.

Hollywood needs to fall of it's own weight. Other states need to fill the void.

And how will it fall if we prop it up? Mr. Trump needs to hand this to Congress to craft a bill that will favor other states over the Great Harlot. We need Texas movies, Florida movies, Missouri movies, Georgia movies. We do not need more propaganda out of Hollywood.

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