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Lights, camera … tax breaks? Why film subsidies and other corporate welfare boondoggles are a bad idea for New Mexican taxpayers

AUGUST 27, 2020 | by Paul Gessing | ERRORS OF ENCHANTMENT (NEW MEXICO)

By Paul Gessing, includes “… Liberal or conservative, socialist-leaning or libertarian, Republican, Democratic, or independent—practically everyone will acknowledge the absurdity of having government take from the poor and the middle class to give to the rich. Yet that’s exactly what happens, every day, in many ways, large and small. New Mexico taxpayers would be well served if their legislature cut such gifts to the rich from their budgets, starting with these ridiculous film subsidies.” 

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