We need $230k for Hidden Colors 6, family

[8WON6]

Cats spend their money & time watching white men in tights play act saving the day for the eleven-thousandth time, but up in arms over this.

it's funny. Tariq simply asks people to donate on their own free will for low budget projects, meanwhile:

Hollywood Companies Have Extracted Billions of Public Dollars​

July 19, 2023
By Anya Gizis

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Together the WGA and SAG-AFTRA represent over 170,000 workers striking together for the first time since 1960, fighting for fair wages and their share of residuals, the pay given to actors when their work is replayed. Many actors have been showing off the minuscule residual checks they’ve gotten from streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon, while some studios claim that information is too hard to track.
Both unions are striking against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTA), a trade association that represents over 300 movie studios, broadcast television networks, and streaming services. This includes Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, ABC, CBS, Netflix, Apple TV+, and many other power players. These companies have boasted high profits in recent years, with Netflix netting $5.6 billion in 2022, Warner Bros. with $2.7 billion, and NBCUniversal with $942 million.
Some of those profits are thanks to film subsidies and tax abatements the companies have been able to extract from state taxpayers. In the last 15 years, seven of the largest production companies have received more than $3.5 billion in Film & TV Tax Credits – and that’s only from states that have transparent disclosures. It represents only a fraction of the billions given out annually from the 37 states offering production incentives. According to Good Jobs First’s Subsidy Tracker, from 2007 to 2022:

• • Disney Productions amassed more than $1.5 billion via film subsidies, and another $500 million from other “job creation” or investment subsidies.
  • Paramount Global got $1.6 billion in film tax credits. That includes an over $115 million subsidy for Madam Secretary in New York, given to Paramount’s subsidiary Eye Production Inc.
  • Warner Bros. got $521 million via film credits. This includes over $30 million dollars from Louisiana for the production of the film Green Lantern.

These deals are costly: Georgia’s film subsidies costs residents $1 billion annually; New York’s residents lose $700 million to them annually, and California’s giveaways will cost taxpayers more than $330 million annually for five more years. Film and TV production “tax credits” are actually cash gifts – they’re given in the form of transferable or refundable corporate income tax credits.
Their value is equal to up to 40% (depending on the state) of a studio’s in-state spending. Transferable credits enable producers to sell or transfer the credits to other companies for cash, and the buyers use them to lower their state income obligations, dollar for dollar. Refundable credits means that if a company cannot use all its credits (because the credit exceeds the company’s income tax bill), the state will return the value of the unused credits in cash.
They’re notorious for very negative Return on Investment (ROI) rates: for example, the Georgia Department of Audits found that for each $1 a film company gets, the state loses 90 cents. Despite the empirical consensus that film and TV fail to benefit taxpayers, states continue to keep and even increase these programs. In fact, many states upped their media giveaways during the pandemic, and even within the past month:

• • Texas increased its film subsidy program from $45 million to $200 million
  • California extended its costly film subsidy program for another five years
  • Missouri brought back its film subsidy program
  • Michigan is thinking about bringing back a film subsidy

With record profits and billions in taxpayer subsidies each year, production companies owe their writers and actors a fair deal. WGA estimates that its changes would only cost around $429 million annually, while SAG-AFTRA has yet to release its figures. Incentives must work to empower communities and workers, not just studio CEOs, by making sure that all of those who make the media we receive get their fair share.
Read more about film subsidies here.

 

[Turtle]

 

[Wiseborn]

it's funny. Tariq simply asks people to donate on their own free will for low budget projects, meanwhile:

when was the last time you donated to a Tariq Project?

I mean we could talk about again investments or the government Investing to keep jobs in one place over another place but forget that.

Have you personally donated? Because if you´re arguing Reverand Ike Style right to get money you´re right but should they get money in this way maybe not.

Either way flexing over being a successful beggar is wild to me.

Next time you see a bum on the corner give him the money for his beer he deserves it.

 

[White City Black]

Luckily for Tariq, I cleaned out the center console in my Bugatti this morning and I found $230k in loose knots of cash

Family, we are well on our way

Money rolls pulled out of the folds
Time to get Emperor Tariq some new clothes

 

[@OffHalsted]

Shameless

 

[8WON6]

when was the last time you donated to a Tariq Project?

I mean we could talk about again investments or the government Investing to keep jobs in one place over another place but forget that.

Have you personally donated? Because if you´re arguing Reverand Ike Style right to get money you´re right but should they get money in this way maybe not.

Either way flexing over being a successful beggar is wild to me.

Next time you see a bum on the corner give him the money for his beer he deserves it.

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and you're all over the place.
Is crowdfunding a movie considered grifting?

 

[Wiseborn]

$0




and you're all over the place.
Is crowdfunding a movie considered grifting?

No Is it ethical also no.

I donated nothing and you donated nothing so really this is an arguement about nothing. nikkas support Tariq in spirt not deed.

You got it breh.

 

[Tair]

it's funny. Tariq simply asks people to donate on their own free will for low budget projects, meanwhile:

when was the last time you donated to a Tariq Project?

I mean we could talk about again investments or the government Investing to keep jobs in one place over another place but forget that.

Have you personally donated? Because if you´re arguing Reverand Ike Style right to get money you´re right but should they get money in this way maybe not.

Either way flexing over being a successful beggar is wild to me.

Next time you see a bum on the corner give him the money for his beer he deserves it.

The government investing = taxpayer money.

They’re notorious for very negative Return on Investment (ROI) rates: for example, the Georgia Department of Audits found that for each $1 a film company gets, the state loses 90 cents. Despite the empirical consensus that film and TV fail to benefit taxpayers, states continue to keep and even increase these programs.

when was the last time you donated to a Tariq Project?

I mean we could talk about again investments or the government Investing to keep jobs in one place over another place but forget that.

Have you personally donated? Because if you´re arguing Reverand Ike Style right to get money you´re right but should they get money in this way maybe not.

Either way flexing over being a successful beggar is wild to me.

Next time you see a bum on the corner give him the money for his beer he deserves it.

Look into "Corporate Welfare" aka "Business Subsidies"

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/corporate-welfare-federal-budget-0

Folks paying Elon Musk a lot of money to support his Ketamine addiction and retweet WS memes all day.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

FDMGA Hidden colours 6

Tough choice

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

it's funny. Tariq simply asks people to donate on their own free will for low budget projects, meanwhile:

These are tax subsidies which are given to studios for creating jobs and bringing in money to the state. Tariq Nasheed only puts money in the pockets of the white people who work on his movies.

 

[invalid]

pay a nikka $200k to tell ya half-truths an alternative facts, brehs.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

No Is it ethical also no.

I donated nothing and you donated nothing so really this is an arguement about nothing. nikkas support Tariq in spirt not deed.

You got it breh.

Wanting other cats to just give nikkas their hard earned money (I’m pretty sure the “movie” has already been filmed… just B-Roll of the other 5) but not wanting to give their own money to the cause they’re championing as well

TheColi.com

 

[Doobie Doo]

Spike didn´t pass the hat for X to regular people he went to some celebrity people and they kicked in for X not School Daze or anyother projects.


Even if all the examples you posted where donations not investments they were One Time projects not crowd funding every single thing.

All of Tariqs movies have been crowd funded and they have all been released to the general public

 

[8WON6]

These are tax subsidies which are given to studios for creating jobs and bringing in money to the state. Tariq Nasheed only puts money in the pockets of the white people who work on his movies.

These deals are costly: Georgia’s film subsidies costs residents $1 billion annually; New York’s residents lose $700 million to them annually, and California’s giveaways will cost taxpayers more than $330 million annually for five more years. Film and TV production “tax credits” are actually cash gifts – they’re given in the form of transferable or refundable corporate income tax credits.
Their value is equal to up to 40% (depending on the state) of a studio’s in-state spending. Transferable credits enable producers to sell or transfer the credits to other companies for cash, and the buyers use them to lower their state income obligations, dollar for dollar. Refundable credits means that if a company cannot use all its credits (because the credit exceeds the company’s income tax bill), the state will return the value of the unused credits in cash.
They’re notorious for very negative Return on Investment (ROI) rates: for example, the Georgia Department of Audits found that for each $1 a film company gets, the state loses 90 cents. Despite the empirical consensus that film and TV fail to benefit taxpayers, states continue to keep and even increase these programs. In fact, many states upped their media giveaways during the pandemic, and even within the past month:

1 man asking his fanbase to donate on their own free will

vs

Hollywood corporations receiving tax dollars and cost taxpayers millions and billions.

 

[Wiseborn]

Wanting other cats to just give nikkas their hard earned money (I’m pretty sure the “movie” has already been filmed… just B-Roll of the other 5) but not wanting to give their own money to the cause they’re championing as well

TheColi.com

The Coli is an extremely unserious place.