Will tariffs make America great?

100% levy on movies? Nice move.

Let's ban all media depicting things like pulling viscera from a living victim, scenes justifying brutal lawlessness ("we can do anything, because under orders"), and any of the now vomit-worthy scenes in which actors, in order to prove their benign intentions, claim "We're Americans!"
 
Hlafordlaes said:
100% levy on movies? Nice move.

Let's ban all media depicting things like pulling viscera from a living victim, scenes justifying brutal lawlessness ("we can do anything, because under orders"), and any of the now vomit-worthy scenes in which actors, in order to prove their benign intentions, claim "We're Americans!"
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100% levy on "foreign" movies, because apparently Hollywood is "dying".

Trump orders 100% tariff on foreign-made movies to save 'dying' Hollywood -
 
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His post on movie tariffs

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA,
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Andy_Ross said:
His post on movie tariffs
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JFC. If other nations can make it more cost-effective to film overseas, maybe the solution would be for locations here to compete by offering the same sort of incentives instead of penalizing the filmmakers for going where they can save money? I thought that the freedom to profit through open competition was supposed to be the whole idea behind capitalism, and that capitalism itself is a system worth emulating everywhere. What Trump seems to be suggesting instead is some sort of state-sanctioned and supported industry; I'm sure there would be no danger of "messaging and propaganda" involved in that.
 
turingtest said:
JFC. If other nations can make it more cost-effective to film overseas, maybe the solution would be for locations here to compete by offering the same sort of incentives instead of penalizing the filmmakers for going where they can save money? I thought that the freedom to profit through open competition was supposed to be the whole idea behind capitalism, and that capitalism itself is a system worth emulating everywhere. What Trump seems to be suggesting instead is some sort of state-sanctioned and supported industry; I'm sure there would be no danger of "messaging and propaganda" involved in that.
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There is also the question of what about films shooting on location? Just look at the forthcoming Mission Impossible movie, or any of the previous ones. It's an American film but big chunks where filmed overseas with foreign crews and foreign actors, would Trump's tariff apply to those.
 
turingtest said:
JFC. If other nations can make it more cost-effective to film overseas, maybe the solution would be for locations here to compete by offering the same sort of incentives instead of penalizing the filmmakers for going where they can save money? I thought that the freedom to profit through open competition was supposed to be the whole idea behind capitalism, and that capitalism itself is a system worth emulating everywhere. What Trump seems to be suggesting instead is some sort of state-sanctioned and supported industry; I'm sure there would be no danger of "messaging and propaganda" involved in that.
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It's not just overseas studios that are a problem for Hollywood. It's other US states.

 
Garrison said:
There is also the question of what about films shooting on location? Just look at the forthcoming Mission Impossible movie, or any of the previous ones. It's an American film but big chunks where filmed overseas with foreign crews and foreign actors, would Trump's tariff apply to those.
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I think you can be sure that he hasn't thought through any of this, how the tariffs will be levied, how the money will be collected, how to cope with streaming services - especially when the movie is included in the subscription.

Remember he's not interested in governing, just getting adulation.
 
Garrison said:
There is also the question of what about films shooting on location? Just look at the forthcoming Mission Impossible movie, or any of the previous ones. It's an American film but big chunks where filmed overseas with foreign crews and foreign actors, would Trump's tariff apply to those.
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How on earth is Trump meant to know about that?
 
Garrison said:
There is also the question of what about films shooting on location? Just look at the forthcoming Mission Impossible movie, or any of the previous ones. It's an American film but big chunks where filmed overseas with foreign crews and foreign actors, would Trump's tariff apply to those.
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The original Star Wars film is basically a British film.

The last Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones movies filmed extensively in the UK. We had both Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford filming here on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It was dressed up as a German WW2 railway for the Indiana Jones film, then he went up the road to Northumberland and used Bamburgh Castle dressed up as a German fortress. They filmed a reconstruction of the New York Apollo ticker tape parade in Glasgow.
 
The Don said:
I think you can be sure that he hasn't thought through any of this, how the tariffs will be levied, how the money will be collected, how to cope with streaming services - especially when the movie is included in the subscription.

Remember he's not interested in governing, just getting adulation.
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And the only part of a movie Trump ever "starred" in was filmed in New York.
 
Andy_Ross said:
The original Star Wars film is basically a British film.

The last Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones movies filmed extensively in the UK. We had both Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford filming here on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It was dressed up as a German WW2 railway for the Indiana Jones film, then he went up the road to Northumberland and used Bamburgh Castle dressed up as a German fortress. They filmed a reconstruction of the New York Apollo ticker tape parade in Glasgow.
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"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was filmed in Spain.
 
The Don said:
I think you can be sure that he hasn't thought through any of this, how the tariffs will be levied, how the money will be collected, how to cope with streaming services - especially when the movie is included in the subscription.

Remember he's not interested in governing, just getting adulation.
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It is unclear to me how you levy and collect a tariff on a movie.
 
Andy_Ross said:
The original Star Wars film is basically a British film.

The last Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones movies filmed extensively in the UK. We had both Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford filming here on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It was dressed up as a German WW2 railway for the Indiana Jones film, then he went up the road to Northumberland and used Bamburgh Castle dressed up as a German fortress. They filmed a reconstruction of the New York Apollo ticker tape parade in Glasgow.
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Add in the fact that movie production especially financing is already notoriously - let me say - twisted and opaque at the best of times. they simply have a USA based production company and voila the film is produced in good old USA!
 
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