Christie Blocks Tax Credit for ‘Jersey Shore’

[alp227]

Source: The New York Times

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Monday blocked a $420,000 tax credit that the state’s Economic Development Authority had approved last week.

Was the loser a high-tech startup? Or an alternative energy company, perhaps?

No. It was Snooki and the Situation.

The production company behind the reality series “Jersey Shore” had applied for the credit, intended to foster film and television shooting in the state, to cover costs for its inaugural season in 2009.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/nyregion/christie-blocks-tax-credit-for-jersey-shore.html

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Well, there is ONE Republican willing to gut corporate welfare.

[Botany]

1. New Jersey home of where Einstein taught (Princeton) &

......

[Synicus Maximus]

3. If you added all the cast members IQs together they would not equal Einsteins dog

[BadtotheboneBob]

11. The only good thing about that stupid program is...

... I get to tease a New Jersey friend over it mercilessly. What fun!

[love0bama-4ever]

2. I hate JerseyShore.

Such a stupid, vulgar show. I am not into that rapper hiphop thing, at all. I am a hair metal/heavy metal fan. MetalMania!!!!!!

[neoconn]

10. Are you equating rap/hip hop with Jersey Shore?

fail...

Are you equating stupid and vulgar with rap/hip hip?

Just asking?

I think the show is stupid and vulgar also...

[alp227]

13. why not listen to some Common,

The Roots,
Rage Against the Machine,
A Tribe Called Quest,
Atmosphere,
Lupe Fiasco,
Wu-Tang Clan...

[neoconn]

16. Great list....

Specially the Rage!!

[FarLeftFist]

4. He would have been eaten alive had he not blocked it.

[rocktivity]

5. MTV didn't isn't making enough off the show

To pay the production company? And I hope they paid their fair share of their taxes?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[ElboRuum]

6. I'm quite fine with this. n/t.

[spinbaby]

7. Oh, the TV show

I was at the actual Jersey shore a couple of weeks ago. It rained for about half an hour and Wildwood was flooded--streets all but impassible for the average car. The waitress at the restaurant we stopped at said there was a drainage problem and that they were waiting for state funding to fix it. I don't know much about drainage and politics in New Jersey, but suspect they will be waiting for state funding for a very long time.

[Muskypundit]

8. He is raising taxes on hard working job creators!

SOCIALIST!!!!!!


:sarcasm:

[Crowman1979]

9. Holy s***! A Republican did something I agree with!

:wow:

[CBHagman]

17. It does kind of take your breath away, doesn't it?

In fact in this case, I'd be fine if the legislature passed a nuisance tax to apply to JS.

[blackspade]

12. Christie is a bastard.

This is another one of those hypocritical 'family values' decisions.
There is nothing that this guy does that doesn't lead to his bread being buttered in some way.

[SoCalDem]

14. What if the show in question had been called:

"Christian Kids Having Fun"?

[blackspade]

15. Your point is, what?

Christie likely would not have bounced the tax break for such a show, which was my whole point.
He is a self serving asshole.