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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

Well those morons and their minority kids can’t bother you anymore.
 
I live in Charlotte, not Matthews.

I really don't think this bill will have as much impact as some people are acting like it will. And it will take at least a decade (after it gets out of the courts) to build out any meaningful school infrastructure. CMS is too shortsighted to build schools where the people are moving. Why shouldn't a municipality step in and urge its state representatives to look out for the rights of its citizenry when a countywide government entity is constantly giving them the short end of the stick ?
 
Some of the challenges to the school system in fast growing areas could be offset by impact fees, but that's not legal in NC.
 
Tillis: Legislators Erred in Ending Film Incentives in 2014

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis says North Carolina lawmakers made a mistake when they ended film incentives several years ago, replacing them with grants.

Tillis tells WECT -TV that legislators "seriously diminished" the industry's effect on the coastal economy. He made his comments after a policy round table in Wilmington this week.

As state House speaker, Tillis, a Republican, favored extending the incentives, but the General Assembly ended them.

In the 2017-18 fiscal year, just two film projects have applied and been approved under the state's grant program. One is a feature film, the other is five commercials for Home Depot.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ators-erred-in-ending-film-incentives-in-2014
 
What was the rationale for ending the program? Tax incentives are a questionable practice but I assume other industries still get plenty of incentives.
 
Deadbolt said:
This. The rationale was “fuck liberal eastern NC cities and those liberal Hollywood types”
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Yep

Some version of this drives the vast majority of Republican and so-called conservative thinking.

And the natural consequence of such a thoughtless (emotive) and reflexively oppositional stratagem is rife with stupid and destructive law and policy.
 
Deadbolt said:
This. The rationale was “fuck liberal eastern NC cities and those liberal Hollywood types”
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I know you're focusing on Wilmington here but Homeland filmed several seasons in Charlotte, as did Banshee. First Hunger Games movie was filmed in Asheville, Hildebran, and Charlotte.

Most recent fairly big movie filmed in NC was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mo, which was filmed in Sylva. You can see people drinking Wicked Weed Napoleon Complex and Duck Rabbit beers.

Republicans don't like to "pick winners and losers in the economy." Nevermind that their conservative counterparts in Georgia and Louisiana are shoveling tax breaks to Hollywood and seeing that same business flourish.
 
Or “coal”, or fossil fuels, or the financial services industry, or the wealthy, or polluters, etc.
 
Deadbolt said:
This. The rationale was “fuck liberal eastern NC cities and those liberal Hollywood types”
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Yep. I remember reading a quote from a rural NC legislator a few years ago in which he complained that most of the money from these productions was going to NC cities or "well off" areas, and why couldn't some productions be made in poorer rural counties like his? This GOP legislature has been waging a war on NC cities in various ways since they gained their majority, and cutting the incentives for film and television productions was one part of the assault.
 
HailToTheDeacons said:
They're also considering amending the state constitution to solidify their political legacy forever.
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The word from insiders at the General Assembly is that GOP House and Senate leaders have instead all but finalized plans to use the latter days of their endangered supermajorities to advance as many as three cynical and/or highly destructive state constitutional amendments during the session. The amendments would: 1) permanently cap the state income tax rate, 2) impose a new photo identification requirement to vote, and 3) establish a state constitutional right to hunt and fish. The apparent plan is to pass all three and place them on the November general election ballot.
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It looks like the first two proposed amendments (read: the substantive ones) are well on their way to the November ballot.
 
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