Chicago, IL—All of America’s big cities are exclusively run
by, Democrats. They never met a tax they
did not love and in fact they have strangled their local businesses to
death. Big city taxpayers and businesses
flee by the droves or simply fall under the weight of taxation from every possible
direction.
Big city taxes are job killers and that of course takes even
more revenue from city treasuries.
Detroit is the poster child for a city that has taxed itself to
death. Cities in California are now filing
bankruptcy one after another. Inept and
corrupt politicians are everywhere.
A reverse tax is needed to draw productivity and life back
to the cities. A reverse tax is simply payments
or grants for businesses to create new life, business and jobs.
A simple revenue-generating program needs to begin for the
motion picture business. Perhaps it’s
time to look at Europe, specifically Germany in this regard. This is where I got the inspiration to write
this article.
I’m involved in the making of a feature film right now that
should be and could be made in the USA. However
first I need investors or funds from every direction and I need a lot of
them. Films are considered risky investments. I was able to find no less than $9 million
in the form of a government cash grant; yes that’s a grant not a loan! It’s coming from the German government!
That’s about half of the total budget of what’s considered a low budget film! Once I have half lined up it is so much
easier to get the second half!
The only requirement to get the money is that 25% of the
filming must occur in Germany under the care of a German film producer. More than 75% of the film I’m involved currently
with can be made in Germany with ease!
Germany hands out the grants because they learned the grants generate
badly needed jobs and revenue!
Take Chicago and filmmaking.
Chicago invites filmmakers to the Windy City and proceeds to offer them
all kinds of cooperation for a very hefty price. Films are being made but not nearly
enough. State and local governments
nickel and dime filmmakers to death from every form of permit fees and
regressive taxation. Making a film in
Chicago is expensive and running off to film friendly Canada to fake Chicago is
always an attractive alternative.
Germany on the other hand has done the math and found that
these generous grants pay off well. The
returns on job generation, and money spent by filmmakers brings big returns to
government coffers.
Chicago is in unique position to attract filmmakers because
it’s a terrific film location. It has every kind of weather; massive parks, the
lake, and huge vacant buildings that can be easily converted into sound
stages. If Germany can get the return on
the investment, why can’t Chicago?
Mayor Emanuel’s brother, Ari Emanuel is probably the most
powerful man in Hollywood right now. He
runs Endeavor, William Morris , the largest talent agency in the world. The talent agencies, not the studios call the
all the shots on American films.
If the City of Chicago partnered with filmmakers it would be
both lucrative and fun for everyone.
They need to somehow learn how to follow the German model.
If the Emanuel brothers got serious with this window of
opportunity they could bring billions to the Windy City and get great films and
TV series made that would never otherwise see the light of day.
By comparison California never figured out how to be film
friendly and have lost hundreds of billions to Canada over the decades. They call that phenomenon runaway
production. For example anything beyond making
a home birthday party movie requires a minimum $1000.00 film permit in Los
Angeles.
No budget producers like me must resort to guerilla
filmmaking. Our crews have to keep a
sharp eye out for the cops as we set up, shoot and scoot before they can stop
us. Perhaps lowering the fees and
bureaucracy could be a good start.
The Great film director Werner Herzog learned long ago to
not let government get in the way of his art.
Herzog goes so far as to suggest to his students that they forge film
permits! Perhaps local government paying
the filmmakers instead of extorting from them might induce new life and
business.
If this works for Chicago they can do the same for any
industry they want to attract. Imagine a
city that pays productive people and their businesses to stay and produce!
The shooter in Colorado mostly likely used an NIH grant to finance his arsenal.
ReplyDeleteJust saying.
eliminate all taxes, but one, retail sales tax. that means ALL taxes; property, income, utilities, capitol gains, etc., on all levels of government, federal, state, county and city.
ReplyDeletethe feds tax retail sales at 10%, each state at 10%, each county a 5% and each city at 5%.
total retail sales taxes combined equals 30%.
that's it.
all government tax income tied directly to retail sales.
the more money available to each citizen, via not being taken by the eliminated taxes, the greater the demand will be for goods and services.
the greater the demand for goods and services, the more jobs for those who want to work.
the more who work, and, thus, earn their income, the more will be spent for goods and servicesat retail.
the more retail sales, the greater the government's income.
if a given government's income fails to cover that government's expenditures, tough shit, that government must reduce it's spending.
if that means lower wages paid to that government's employees, so what, as those employees will be, like every other citizen, not paying out for the eliminated taxes and, thus, will still have plenty of income to purchase goods and services.
plus, with no taxes on profits, all businesses will have capitol to expand, which they will do to meet the increased demand for their goods and services, thus reducing the need to borrow for same.
Lasting jobs can be created if we: Implement a domestic natural gas policy to fuel all of our nation's trucks and power plants; impose usury ceilings of 12% for home mortgages and 18% for credit cards; reform Chapter 13 laws to allow homeowners to keep their homes and pay back the fair market value of their homes at 12% over 30 years; employ armies of accountants and auditors to eliminate defense, medicaid, medicare and financial and securities fraud; seal the borders combined with a fair foreign workers permit system based on the level of need for such workers; cut the defense budget by 1/3 and eliminate all tax credits and subsidies for individuals and businesses making more than $100,000 in profit per year; take the resulting more than 1 trillion dollars in resulting tax revenue per year to pay off the federal debt and invest in a new electric grid and a solar and wind investment tax credit program based only upon American made products and American jobs especially those lost at NASA; return to the tax rates remaining upon the first round of tax cuts promulgated by Ronald Reagan and use the increased revenues to make social security and medicare solvent and to reduce or eliminate small business payroll taxes; make medicare available to every American and watch small businesses grow and become competitive in the world economy; make college tuition free to all academically qualified students no matter their family income.
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