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Filmmaker Michael Moore Takes Michigan Film Tax Credits After Criticizing Program

1 min readBy: Joseph Bishop-Henchman

The Mackinac Center in Michigan has this video describing more saga with Michigans film taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. incentive program, where Michael Moore has criticized corporate welfare but will receive it for the making of his recent film, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

Michigan features greatly in our new report on film tax credits, explaining how they are ineffective at economic development. Read it here. Michigan has one of the most generous film incentive programs, using substantial public resources to attract the industry to the state.

Also relevant to the Michigan film tax credit question is the appropriateness of using taxpayer dollars to subsidize viewpoints many of them probably disagree with.

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Joseph Bishop-Henchman

Joseph Bishop-Henchman

Executive Vice President

Joe Bishop-Henchman is Executive Vice President at the Tax Foundation, where he analyzes state tax trends, constitutional issues, and tax law developments. Joe has testified or presented to officials in 36 states, testified before Congress six times, and has written over 75 major studies on tax policy.