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Townhall
Finance
Let's
Tax Matt Damon
by John Ransom
In
the name of shared sacrifice,
it’s time to impose a tax on the $7 billion in box office receipts that
Hollywood generates.
I
added up the domestic box office
activity for the week August 26 through September 1st based on figures
provided
by Variety. The take for the week for Rise of the Planet of the Apes,
Our Idiot
Brother, Spy Kids: All The Time In The World, plus 130 other box office
leaders
was $136 million. Year-to-date those films have grossed over $4 billion.
$7
billion in annual receipts can
hire quite a few teachers. 145,228 teachers actually.
$136
million each week would pay
the unemployment benefits for 461,017 people at the average benefit of
$295
per week.
Look,
if people are going to talk
seriously about taxing “the idle rich”, they should get serious about
looking
at the most idle members of our society- those who reside mostly in Los
Angeles
and Manhattan and make a living off of show business.
Being
a sometimes starving writer,
I have a lot of respect for the sacrifices that artists make to pursue
their
craft.
But
Hollywood box offices aren’t
funding starving artists.
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