re: Louisiana - The Movie-Making Capital of the World

They claim 13000 employees. The truth is 13000 names appeared on 941s during the year. That is far from full time worker BUT let's examine that number.

We spent around $200 million subsiding these companies. That is $15384.00 person. We would be better off to collect their names and simply give them $15000 apiece. Would anyone support that?

I bet you if you take out the multi million dollar payments to actors and consider all the part timers in that 13000 the $15000 want be far from the total earnings of most of the people on those 941s.

This is a "industry" of gypsy companies that need no fixed capital to speak off and can move around states like crazy. There will never be a permanent movie industry in Louisiana without tax payers subsidies.

If you proponents of this kind of welfare want to pick winners and losers how about giving the money to a real industry with brick and mortar investments and long term viability that will domicile here and actually pay taxes.

NONE of the light weights here that support these credits can make the case why we should give this industry 30+% of the expenses instead of Boeing or Google or Microsoft or even a snowball stand.

What is a shame about these numbers if the number of films that WERE NOT produced here. Even with the richest subsidies in the country we can not attract the majority of the films.

It is stupid to support these subsidies.