In Rayleigh, North Carolina it is being proposed by a Republican lawmaker that any movie script being subsidized by state tax money to be made into a movie be reviewed before any production begins.  Ooooh…. that sounds reasonable right?

Original arty here:  Political Review of Movies

Exerpt:  Citing the controversy surrounding the Dakota Fanning film Hounddog, the leader of the state Senate Republicans says he wants the government to review scripts before cameras start rolling in North Carolina.That system, said state Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, would apply only to films seeking the state’s lucrative filmmaker incentive, which refunds as much as 15 percent of what productions spend in North Carolina from the state treasury.

First reaction of a normal citizen would have you say 1) gee yes movies should be reviewed  2) but wait do we want politicos doing the Stalin bit on movies ??  Heck no. 

The problem is too many people do not do the 3rd step in the thought process.  One way of getting to the 3rd step is to realize that BOTH movie content can be inappropriate and so can government review.   Is the light going on yet?  The 3rd step in the though process is to realize that the government has no business shaping opinion in any form using tax money or otherwise.  Therefore the real solution is to cut absolutely all subsidies that would be used to make movies.  In fact the same argument applies to PBS and anti-smoking campaigns.  Individual politicians should be able to make their case but never I repeat never should they be able to use the government to purvey their outlooks.  Using the government to do this is a  Tumor-causing, teeth-staining, smelly, puking habit. 
 

And here is the REALLY BIG POINT: All too often government and especially the dems try to sell a solution to a problem they themselves created.  An example would be healthcare.  Many dems propose universal socialized medicine.  Yet they help create the problem with excessive lawsuits by their constituents the trial lawyers and by providing a capacity to pay which in a market economy naturally drives prices up. 

When you think to solve problems the first thing you should look for is the things you did to create the problem. 

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