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

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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.

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I agree, it's foolish to give such tax breaks to the movie industry. You will never see the major studios and smaller studios and production companies based in Louisiana.

Louisiana needs to base its economy on Energy, petrochemicals, agriculture, seafood, the port facilities and potential of New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

When you consider that Minneapolis-St. Paul at the head of the Mississippi is larger and has a better economy than New Orleans which is at the mouth of the Mississippi it's mind boggling. Most cities at the Delta and end of a major river like Shanghai, Rotterdam, and Karachi are the bigger cities.