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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWELFARE DYNASTY: Duck Dynasty Cast Receives $70,000 from Louisiana Taxpayers PER EPISODE
Do you remember a time when Patriarch Phil Robertson said that African-Americans were better off pre-entitlement, pre-welfare? When they were happy and Godly? Do you remember those remarks? Good. Keep them in mind, because while Robertson was complaining about Blacks on welfare, the cast of his show, Duck Dynasty, soaked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in welfare money from the State of Louisiana every year.
Louisiana recently did a study that found only 15 cents of economic benefit for every dollar spent by state taxpayers are used to prop up Hollywood productions, including reality shows such as Duck Dynasty.
The nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) published a report on film subsidy programs, which found that the subsidies are big money-losers for states, and result in budget cuts to needed programs, to compensate for money poured into the pockets of productions such as Duck Dynasty.
According to Inquisitr, the cast receives $70,000 per episode in government handouts from the state, and are paid $200,000 per week to be on the show.
http://aattp.org/welfare-dynasty-duck-dynasty-cast-recieves-70000-from-louisiana-taxpayers-per-episode/
godamnit, Louisiana.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)All La newspapers. Get the people screaming about this welfare.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)a kennedy
(29,467 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)LA. is the largest film production state in the US now. Huge revenues are generated as out of state studios spend fortunes along with their crews. As they shoot productions.
Dawn of the planet of the apes
Pirates of the Caribbean (Hell they are building the deck of the Black Pearl where I work)
etc
Yeah Millions come into the state.
And you guys get bent out of shape beacuse a dying right wing reality show gets it too...
Yeah thrown the baby out with the dishwater.
Morons...Repukes would love to cut this subsidy.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)oil companies and not to other non-needy big money companies but i understand nimby.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)that rely on those dollars to shoot. The small companies where the real original movies come from.
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)it just upsetting to us sharks to see the fresh blood in and water and not to attack....
but i will get over it
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)dilby
(2,273 posts)I am willing to bet A&E gets the money, when was the last time a subsidy went to the worker instead of the Corporation that pays the worker.