Tax the (Other) Rich

From the man who once said he'd pay a million dollars to see John Kerry win the White House:

Matt Damon: Mass. is failing in film industry

Actor and Oscar winner Matt Damon said his home state is losing out on millions of dollars in revenue from movie and TV productions that other states are claiming because they provide creative financial incentives and a unified marketing effort that he says do not exist in Massachusetts.

In a wide-ranging telephone interview last week, Damon weighed in on the confusion fueled by dueling film offices in Massachusetts and the state's lack of tax incentives to entice big-budget productions to the region.

What else should he expect from a state wholly under the control of tax-and-spend liberals, oops, sorry, "progressives" for whom taxing people for driving into downtown Boston is "outside the box" thinking?

Massachusetts refuses to offer "creative financial incentives" to its own residents and business owners (unless, of course, they're members of a local union extortionist lobby). What makes people think they'd be willing to extend such benefits to out-of-state interests? And, some people think that the solution to problems like this lies in expanding the influence of Bay State liberalism at the national level with a candidate like John Kerry in the Oval Office?

I don't think so.