"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Lucrative tax credits for the film industry — has been tried out in many state laboratories over the past decade and a half. As many as 44 states have offered the subsidies, among them Massachusetts, which is currently spending $80 million yearly in givebacks to Hollywood producers. The tax credits have their ardent defenders; what corporate-welfare program doesn’t? But the results haven’t lived up to the hype. Almost nowhere have the lavish subsidies led to a robust, homegrown movie industry."
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