Hollywood Loves A Good Hypocrite
And they don’t come any better or bigger than ultra-leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Case in point: spewing his liberal rhetoric across the screen with a movie that bashes corporate tax handouts, while pocketing a huge corporate tax handout for the movie.
Moore received an estimated $650,000 to $1 million in state film tax credits from the production of his movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” according to this report from the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
And here’s the real kicker: the lucrative subsidy was approved by the Michigan Film Office, which receives its marching orders from the Film Office Advisory Council. Guess who is a ranking member of the Film Office Advisory Council: Michael Moore.
This from the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
“While we don’t blame Mr. Moore and his production team for taking what is offered, it’s striking that a movie focused on the inequities of granting taxpayer dollars to private enterprise would apply for and receive taxpayer-funded incentives.”
“Government should not be bailing out or subsidizing Wall Street banks or main street filmmakers. As Moore knows, this marriage between government and business – in the name of creating and saving jobs – can facilitate every sort of mischief.”
And this from Moore, again bashing corporate tax handouts, including the likes of film tax credits that he received:
“These are large multinational corporations – Viacom, GE, Rupert Murdoch – that owns these studios. Why do they need our money, from Michigan, from our taxpayers, when we’re already broke here? I mean, they play one state against another, and so they get all this free cash when they’re making billions in profits. What’s the thinking behind that?”
Don’t look for an honest answer from Moore, insider-trading greedmonger.
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