Editorial
October 28, 2014
Why Politicians Love Film Subsidies
Sen. Stabenow to appear in Batman v. Superman
How do you get politicians to approve of spending $500 million on a film subsidy that pledged to create jobs but ends up with fewer jobs than it did before taxpayers coughed up half a billion?
ForTheRecord says: Easy. You put them in a movie with Ben Affleck.
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