(Twitchy)Michael Moore: My theater makes money because it’s designed not to turn a profit

twitchy ^ | june 5 2013 | Twitchy

[cripplecreek]

Michael Moore takes to twitter to brag about the profit his non profit theater makes and hilarity ensues.

[cripplecreek]

Michael Moore ✔ @MMFlint

Here's a few pix of the movie theater I run: http://mmflint.me/11kYbvG Come see us if you're in northern MI!

HankKnowsSports @HankKnowsSports

@mmflint How capitalist of you!

Michael Moore ✔ @MMFlint

"RT @HankKnowsSports: @mmflint How capitalist of u!" Sorry my friend, but the theater is set up to NOT make a profit. That's why it thrives.

And from there Twitchy users begin to dig and find out that he relies on a volunteer workforce outside investors and quite possibly, subsidies.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Damn, sometimes the stupid just hurts my head.

[mjp]

the theater is set up to NOT make a profit. That's why it thrives.

he relies on a volunteer workforce

EXPLOITER of labor

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "the theater is set up to NOT make a profit."

Isn't that nice of the IRS to set him up under a 501 c(4) without any problems

[gorush]

If the theater is set up as a non profit, I wonder if the IRS OK’d any tax exemption applications or inspected any of its operations? I bet not.

[cripplecreek]

Not to mention that Michigan taxpayers subsidize at least some of the films he shows.

It makes me wonder if he isn’t getting some kind of special deal on them too.

[Viking2002]

Michael Moore is a fat tub of goo.

[cripplecreek]

Michael Moore's Latest Crusade: The Nonprofit Movie Theater

First, here's what I know about the business model Moore wants to replicate. In Traverse City, an attractive town near the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, Moore and his people have built a small cinematic shrine comprising an extremely selective annual film festival and a restored cinema called the State Theater, which shows art movies year-round (current attraction: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"). Moore's economic experiment centers on the theater, which is run as a nonprofit and staffed largely by volunteers. Moore has offered to share this business model, and to provide seed money and training, for folks who want to emulate the Traverse City formula in their markets

[cripplecreek]

What did goo do to you?

[cripplecreek]

Looks like he got a half million from HUD just for the theater in Flint. (he has 4 in Michigan)

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/06/could_the_capitol_theatre_be_n.html

[Viking2002]

"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous goo, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master, man, is even that fair play. Who's over me? Truth hath no confines."

Or something to that effect.

[a fool in paradise]

He sees the money MADD executives and Red Cross staff makes. He wants in on that game. Taxes are for sheeple, not the politburo Marxists.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Freakin hypocrite.

I despise these people.

BTW, did you catch this? Three vids at the link:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/04/everything-is-up-for-grabs-beck-explains-why-world-war-iii-could-be-on-the-horizon/

[Chode]

[cripplecreek]

Michael Moore is a bloated tick on the ass of Michigan.

Michael Moore and Subsidies: A Love-Hate Story

Michael Moore's Anti-Greed Film To Be Subsidized by Michigan Taxpayers

[cripplecreek]

[Chode]

100%... nothing but a bloated tick on the backside on America

[PsyOp]

That constitutes an insult to goo...

[jmcenanly]

he relies on a volunteer workforce
He doesn't have to worry about paying a minimum wage since he pays no wage at all. I'm surprised that he doesn't charge them for the privilege of being his employees.