Alec Baldwin Update

I like Alec Baldwin, because I think he can be very funny. I detest his politics, but since he moved to Canada....oh wait, he never followed thru on that. Nevermind.

Anyway, this is a prime example of why the left frustrates me so. (Okay, everyone frustrates me, but especially lefties.)

We're constantly told that taxes don't matter to business and investors, but listen to that noted supply-side economist, Alec Baldwin. The actor recently rebuked New York Governor David Paterson for threatening to try to help close the state's $7 billion budget deficit by canceling a 35% tax credit for films shot in the Big Apple.

"I'm telling you right now," Mr. Baldwin declared, "if these tax breaks are not reinstated into the budget, film production in this town is going to collapse, and television is going to collapse and it's all going to go to California." Well, well. Apparently taxes do matter, at least when it comes to filming "30 Rock" in Manhattan.

Believe it or not, Mr. Baldwin's views are shared across the movie industry, which is pleading in state capitals across the country for most-favored-tax status. Hollywood productions are highly mobile and can film just about anywhere. So they have taken to shopping around the country -- and the world -- for the most lucrative tax avoidance deal.

Gee, Alec, all I ever hear is "cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes." You going Republican on me, dude?

See, Hollywood is just like every other business in the country...they are in business to make money.

This makes BIG CORPORATIONS evil. Just not Hollywood corporations.

You can't make this stuff.

Well, I can. But I'm not.