
Hollywood is bleeding productions to other states and countries, costs are through the roof, and the entire industry is staring down the barrel of becoming the next Detroit — so naturally, California Senator Adam Schiff wants you, the American taxpayer, to bail them out with federal tax credits. Because when your woke vanity projects stop making money, the answer is always someone else's wallet.
The same industry that lectures us about climate change from private jets and produces woke nonsense disguised as children's cartoons wants a government subsidy to keep the lights on.
According to a report from Variety, published on June 16, writer Gene Maddaus laid out the grim reality facing Los Angeles. "Everything costs more in L.A., starting with labor, due to the high cost of living and elaborate union agreements," Maddaus wrote. Other states and countries have developed crew bases of their own and offer more generous incentives, meaning productions that used to default to Hollywood are now packing up and leaving.
Maddaus put the stakes in historical terms: "Los Angeles has been the world's entertainment capital for 100 years." The implication is that the streak is about to end. And whose fault is that, exactly?
Enter Adam Schiff who is pushing a federal film production tax credit to lure productions back to American soil and specifically back to California. Schiff told Variety, "We have a lot of our influence around the world as a result of American film and TV." He added, "In order to save this industry in America, we need to be competitive with tax credits."
Schiff indicated back in March that he had "largely drafted" a bill but needed bipartisan support to get it across the finish line. Good luck finding a Republican willing to co-sign a bailout for studios that spent the last decade calling half the country racist.
This is an industry that created its own problems. California's sky-high taxes, suffocating regulations, and elaborate union agreements drove up costs to the point where filming in Georgia, New Mexico, or even the United Kingdom is just plain cheaper. Hollywood didn't get outcompeted — it chased itself out of town.
Richard Grenell, never one to mince words, summed up the conservative response perfectly: "Hard NO to anything Schiff supports." He called out the absurdity of taxpayers funding "woke projects at Hollywood Studios." We couldn't agree more.
Let's be honest here. This isn't about saving American culture or protecting jobs. This is about propping up an industry that hates us, lectures us, and then has the audacity to ask us to foot the bill when their business model collapses under the weight of their own bad decisions.
We didn't break Hollywood. They did. And if Adam Schiff thinks heartland taxpayers are going to subsidize the next unwatchable lecture disguised as a Netflix original, he's even more delusional than his Russia collusion days suggested.
Let them learn to code.


Comments are closed.