Hollywood doesn’t deserve a tariff bailout – Washington Examiner
The article titled “Hollywood doesn’t deserve a tariff bailout” discusses President Donald Trump’s perspective on tariffs, especially a proposed 100% tariff on foreign films, which he asserts is necessary to protect the American movie industry from international competition. The author critiques Hollywood, labeling it as a hub of liberal propaganda that has distanced itself from conservative voices and is largely responsible for its own decline due to high costs and burdensome regulations in California. The piece suggests that instead of receiving a bailout, Hollywood should address its self-inflicted issues, and it questions whether it would be better for the country if Hollywood celebrities relocated overseas. The overarching argument is that Hollywood, seen as elite and out of touch, does not warrant financial assistance from the government, especially while perpetuating what the author considers to be liberal narratives through film.
Hollywood doesn’t deserve a tariff bailout
President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs is driven in part by a desire to restore industries to the American communities they have increasingly abandoned. Maybe we would all be better off, though, if Hollywood weren’t a beneficiary of these tariff bailouts.
Trump announced a 100% tariff on foreign films in a Truth Social post this month, declaring, “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!”
Is it so bad, though, that “Hollywood” is “being devastated”? It has become, after all, a haven of anti-American liberal propaganda. Embedded in uber-liberal Los Angeles, Hollywood studios have frozen out conservative voices and foisted their anti-American narratives on the rest of the country through their films and through their influence on the culture. Hollywood is home to millionaire left-wing celebrities who work to elect terrible Democratic politicians. That infamous fundraiser where then-President Joe Biden wandered around lost onstage was in Los Angeles, where George Clooney and others helped Biden’s campaign receive $28 million.
The California Democratic Party has been responsible for Hollywood’s hollowing out. Regulations, taxes, and California’s inflated prices just make everything so much more expensive, including film productions. Studios that make films in Georgia pay less in taxes than if they did in California, on top of the lower cost of labor and materials. Shooting in California is just too expensive and too burdensome for too many studios.
You can take it from the experts. Actors Rob Lowe and Adam Scott earlier this year detailed the decline of Hollywood in Hollywood, with Lowe saying that the “union stuff” and the “economics of it all” just make it cheaper to fly people around the world for productions than actually shoot in Hollywood. Lowe would know. His game show, The Floor, flies 100 contestants to Dublin, Ireland, rather than filming in Los Angeles. Lowe said Parks and Recreation, the hit show he and Scott starred in, would be shot in Budapest, Hungary, if it were made today.
How have Hollywood celebrities repaid Georgia for offering the tax breaks that celebrities such as Lowe want to see? They lined up in droves to lecture the state about its abortion restrictions, calling them “evil” and threatening to pull productions, or pressure studios to pull productions, out of the state.
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If anything, it would possibly be better for the country if we shipped all of these Hollywood celebrities off to Ireland or maybe even Xinjiang, China. Disney’s Mulan team apparently had a great time there!
Whatever the case, the country has far more pressing matters than bailing out a bunch of entitled Hollywood celebrities to save the dying city that is being killed by the very politicians they support. Hollywood doesn’t deserve a bailout, especially while studios keep churning out liberal propaganda.
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