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  • The King Kong of Subsidies

    02/03/2006 7:31:57 PM PST · by Brian Allen · 8 replies · 405+ views
    By email FRom CommonSense@getliberty.org ^ | Friday February 3 2006 | Paul Jacob
    When governments get in the business of business, there's no enormity they won't engage in. Say you want to attract more movie businesses to your country. So, hey, why not! Subsidize a movie or two or three. After the "Lord of the Rings" success, though -- you know, Peter Jackson's trilogy of films based on Tolkien's trilogy of books -- you might've thought that New Zealand's government would sit back and just wait for more films to be filmed down under. Talk about getting all the publicity they could hope for. So why give $25 million to Peter Jackson to...