IATSE: IATSE continues to pursue all policy measures that can be implemented to return and maintain U.S. film and television jobs, while not disadvantaging our Canadian members. Federal policymakers must act to level the playing field and make the U.S. film and television industry more competitive on the global stage. IATSE is engaging with the Trump administration and Congress to advocate for policies that result in those stated goals.
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Personally, I don't agree with most of what this administration has done. Actually probably about 99% of the moves they have made I've thought have been incredibly ridiculous. But this is a nice thing to see, and I don't think anyone wants to push the film industry away. However I don't think that tariffs are the right direction. We need subsidies, for films to stay in America, give Movies more money to film in America, give theaters more money to do theatre in America, taxing them for doing film or theatre in other countries isn't the problem. The problem lies in the fact that it's expensive to do film and theatre here because we have worker protections, and union rates. So instead of cutting grants to the arts, give grants to the arts and that will promote art jobs. How do we pay for the grants? You tax people that have a lot of money. It's completely ridiculous that we continue to attempt to navigate around this solution. But it's become increasingly obvious that they are attempting to keep the system afloat so they stay in power.
I am all for IASTE engaging with the Trump administration to help create a balanced federal response to the film and TV crisis, but I fear that the engagement is not influencing in the correct direction. We are unfortunately seeing the symptoms of late-stage capitalism and the result. Unfortunately, instead of helping people it’s every man for himself in this society and subsidies, grants, and taxing the rich are seen as enabling delinquency, laziness, and self-destruction. If the answer was as simple as tariffs on foreign film and TV I think the problem would have been solved decades ago, but as we consistently see tariffs very rarely affect the exporting country and adversely affect the importing country as it refuses to incentivize people in its own country. Coming from Iowa where films have had their ups and downs, the incentives really do influence more than the deterrents. Unfortunately, Iowa is still in one of its slumps and this slump is well over a decade after a few people in the film industry ruined it for the whole.
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