Brad Pitt Flick Costs Louisiana Taxpayers $27 Million!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:03 am

Looks like you can lump Hollywood into that pile of crappy, greedy people mooching off of the America's taxpayer.

On Saturday, the New York Times reported on the millions of dollars
from states that have been going straight to the pockets of Hollywood
studios to finance movies via tax breaks.

Hollywood is just as bad as those greedy Wall Street finance people.

For example, Louisiana taxpayers funded $27 million of Brad Pitt's $167
million dollar movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The paper
also notes that this is the state’s biggest movie payout to date.

Hollywood producers and studios claim that the state tax breaks allow
them to keep entertainment jobs in the U.S. and create jobs.

But, au contraire.

The report points to the case of a straight-to-DVD Wesley Snipes and
Cybil Shepherd-starring picture called Hard Luck filmed in the state of
Rhode Island.

The seaside state gave Hard Luck $2.65 million in tax breaks, but Rhode Islander's only netted $1.9 million in return.

Why don't the politically 'active' stars take on their own greedy industry.

Ahem, Brad?

Did that Benjamin Buttons movie generate more than $27 million in revenues for Louisiana!?

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