Congratulations fellow North Carolinians, you are about to forfeit an untold amount of tax revenue to the millionaires at Warner Brothers – again – while the state faces a budget ... Keep Reading
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Perdue: Cheerleader for the Ruling Class
The ruling class is at it again. Gov. Bev Perdue is excited that New Line Cinema will accept the state's bribe (courtesy of state taxpayers) and film a movie in Wilmington. A ... Keep Reading
Hollywood Big Shots Out of Touch
Some Hollywod execs working in Wilmington just can't understand why some North Carolina citizens may be upset that they are receiving special tax breaks unavailable to "the little ... Keep Reading
Gov. Perdue Increases Tax Breaks to Billion-Dollar Corporations
Gov. Perdue is set to sign into law more central planning of our economy - this time ramping up more tax breaks for (among other things) television and movie studios filming in ... Keep Reading
Welfare for Movie Stars
Today's Southern Pilot features a Scott Mooneyham article about the proposed expansion of North Carolina's tax credit to movie and TV production studios. Poor Brad Pitt. And what ... Keep Reading
Keeping North Carolina Competitive?
Logrolling is a term used in politics to describe when legislators promise to vote for one anothers bills in an effort to keeps the legislative wheels greased. Essentially, ... Keep Reading
Economic Incentives Farce
Apparently embarrassed by a recent Civitas Review blog post concerning HB713, which would have extended tax credits to million dollar film production studios instead of to the ... Keep Reading
More Follies From the “Jobs Governor”
Last week, I blogged about Gov. Perdue's trip to Hollywood in order to bribe millionaire movie moguls with North Carolina's enhanced film tax credits. In that post, I mentioned a ... Keep Reading
