Tax Incentive to Cut Gay TV, Film Characters

[The Straight Story]

Tax Incentive to Cut Gay TV, Film Characters

A proposed tax incentive to attract the film and television industry to Florida would not apply to productions that showcase "nontraditional family values," says the Republican house member sponsoring the jobs stimulus measure.

Films and television shows with gay characters could be ineligible for a “family-friendly” tax credit, part of a $75 million incentive package that Florida house Republicans hope will attract entertainment jobs to their state.

According to thePalm Peach Post, “The bill would prohibit productions with ‘nontraditional family values’ from receiving a so-called family-friendly tax credit. But it doesn't define what ‘nontraditional family values’ are, something the bill's sponsor had a hard time doing, too.”

When pressed on whether shows with gay characters should get the tax credit, state representative Stephen Precourt, a Republican from Orlando who is sponsoring the bill, said, "That would not be the kind of thing I'd say that we want to invest public dollars in."

http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Entertainment_News/Tax_Incentive_to_Cut_Gay_Film_Characters/

[LisaM]

1. God, does it just never end?

How can these people be this way? HOW?

[mitchtv]

2. yup I have no family

I just growed up

[RKP5637]

3. I am so fed up with these jerks! All of the problems in this country and these

damn fools drag on crap like this. ...such a backward place this is.

[YOY]

4. Who decides what is "family friendly" is the whole thing.

We all know who. And they aren't friendly to anyones' families but their own.

[alp227]

5. So this incentive would attract conservative Christian TV shows to film in Florida?

No wonder CSI: Miami has to be produced in Los Angeles. It's just so gruesome and violent that the state won't cut the production taxes. :sarcasm:

For the record, here's a slight list of shows that take place (but not necessarily are produced in) Florida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_shows_set_in_Florida

What's next? Is Florida going to start taxing rap musicians more to produce music in the state? Because Miami bass music originated in that very state, as did the controversial, sexually explicit rap group 2 Live Crew. And then there's Pitbull with his songs about clubbing, pimping, booty-shaking, and drinking.

If this really passed, it'd backfire, because the only film producers who'd even bother setting up shop in the Sunshine State might as well work for CBN or those "Christian networks" far up the TV channel lineup. This is just bleeping bigoted.