Newsom begs to be shaken down
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It’s a given LA law, someone’s faster on the draw:
A day after President Trump stunned Hollywood by calling for steep tariffs on movies “produced in Foreign Lands,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said on Monday that he wanted to team up with the Trump administration to craft a $7.5 billion federal film tax credit to aid the entertainment industry.
The proposal, if approved, would represent by far the largest single government subsidy program ever for the industry in the United States, and the first of its kind at the federal level. More than three dozen states already give out incentives to lure and retain film and television production, but there is no national program, as is the case in some countries overseas. And there is no single state program that gives out more than about $1 billion each year. California currently allocates $330 million annually.
“America continues to be a film powerhouse, and California is all in to bring more production here,” Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement late Monday night. “Building on our successful state program, we’re eager to partner with the Trump administration to further strengthen domestic production and Make America Film Again.”
Imagine looking at the first 100 days of Trump 2.0 and thinking “we need to make our cultural industry more dependent on federal funding.” The guy is just a natural collaborationist, I guess.
Anyway, this is one of the most inept de facto presidential campaigns I’ve ever seen. He somehow finds a new way every week to make clear that he could not possibly be less equipped to deal with the threat to American democracy.
cc: Gavin Newsom
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