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Lights! Camera! Tariffs!

JL;DR SUMMARY The discussion primarily focuses on Trump's tariff plan on foreign films, deeming it impractical and misguided, while delving into broader issues surrounding the U.S. film industry's migration from California due to unfavorable tax policies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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United States
"The plan is Meshuggah. Excuse me. It will go nowhere. It doesn't mean anything. Movies are a very weird form of business product. They are often made by large corporations in part, but each of them is essentially one or two or maybe three different companies that assemble to create this one product and then disassemble once the product is completed and unraveling."
Germany
"And there's a lot of German tax incentives and tax shelters that mean that movies are incorporated outside the United States that you would think of as being entirely American."
California, United States
"There is a crisis in film production in the United States, largely involving the fact that it has become too expensive for motion pictures to film in California because of the California state tax code."
Georgia, United States
"Georgia now being the most famous because like all of the... Avengers, all the Marvel movies are made in Georgia."
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"Why? Georgia will actually pay you if you were a movie producer to make a movie in Georgia. Literally, let's say you have a budget of $15 million for your movie. You can get Georgia to write you a check for as much as $7 million for the privilege of having your movie made in Georgia."
New Mexico, United States
"This is why Breaking Bad was made in New Mexico."
British Columbia, Canada
"But also, it's not just that they don't have people... It's not just that business leaders don't support them. It's that nobody working for the president supports them except for Peter Navarro, and you can change policy when Peter Navarro is not in the room. I mean, if Mark Carney, who comes to the White House today, if he knows what's good for him, he'll just insist on a one-on-one without Navarro there."
Sanaa, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen
"Okay, let's let's move on to apparently word is that the israelis may have just destroyed we'll see this later may have completely destroyed the airport in yemen in the capital of sanaa like you know in response to the errant houthi missile i say errant i mean it was errant by 75 meters had the had the missile hit 75 meters closer thousands of people would be dead in bengorian airport in israel."
Israel
"Okay, let's let's move on to apparently word is that the israelis may have just destroyed we'll see this later may have completely destroyed the airport in yemen in the capital of sanaa like you know in response to the errant houthi missile i say errant i mean it was errant by 75 meters had the had the missile hit 75 meters closer thousands of people would be dead in bengorian airport in israel."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Now, this is why breaking bad was made in New Mexico. There are all kinds of weird things where states are like, no, no, come here. We will give you money in order to employ people in our state. California stopped doing that and not only doesn't do that but taxes film production in different ways and the entire industry that is based there is in a depression. So if you want to like live and work in the movies and you're an electrician... Or a gaffer or whatever it is you do, you can't live in California and do this for a living. You have to keep traveling or going somewhere. What do you do if you have a family? It's a terrible point. So why Trump wants to announce this in some fashion to get Gavin Newsom and the California leftists who on the one hand want to celebrate the fact that they're in this creative state doing all sorts of wonderfully creative things without doing anything to make the state more businessable. I don't know. I honestly certainly don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's the uncertainty that makes the economic indicator so crazy and it's what makes investors and businessmen crazy for good reason and he's not i don't i so far have not found even the long-term strategy outlined by besant and others who are trying to be thoughtful about this i haven't found a persuasive they're not trying to be thought mark carney knows what i don't want to give them credit i'm sorry i do not want to give them credit for being thoughtful they're trying they're trying to make a strategy thrown their cards in besant knows this is a disaster so he's trying to mitigate the damage but if you want to talk about uncertainty once the plans are revealed and the tariff numbers are set and they go into place the uncertainty will not drop because the idea will be well how can we negotiate out of this you know we're doing this in order to ..."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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