osamanobama said:
mchaza said:
Well fair argument, well US need to really up there game on federal funding for the video game industry because US used to be an power house recruiting 10-100 thousand people even more in the games industry and now they are losing lots of jobs and money though taxes to canada whos government sees the gaming industry and an industry to tap into and is giving 37% tax break, now there is heaps and heaps of studios and once they build there big studios there all the major publishers aren't going to pack up an leave when the tax break finishes because they have just spent alot of money on these new studios.
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theres a difference between letting companies keep their own money, and giving them other peoples money
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From a functional standpoint, another way to view it is this. Imagine the tax rate is set at X. The government taxes people the same rate, but then decides to give some people money back who do certain things. When the government offers selective tax breaks to favor certain industries, it ends up picking one over the other, usually the one with the best lobbying efforts and ability to buy politicians through campaign support. Only time you can say that a tax break isn't like giving them money is when the tax break WITHOUT qualifier, is applied across the board.
