Perfect. Makes you want to bang your head on the ground.
Lawmakers in Raleigh are rushing into a tax subsidy bidding war in order to make sure a new Miley Cyrus movie gets made in Wilmington, as opposed to Georgia. The current 15 percent tax credit for filmmakers would get bumped to 25 percent should legislation introduced in the General Assembly pass.
Check out how state Rep. Pryor Gibson describes the situation:
“You get all this money, all this income and tax money and retail purchases and you get to send them home,” Gibson said of movie production. “It’s like having relatives come to visit you with lots of money to spend and going home with nothing left in their pockets.”
Just shoot me. I cannot take anymore.
Update: Here, let’s pile on. The director of Miley’s current movie says “there is no way this girl shouldn’t be ranked with Shirley Temple or Judy Garland.”
