Tenney’s SCREEN Act won’t help much in Orleans, rural counties
Editor:
How exciting for movie fans everywhere! Santa Claudia supports using millions of dollars of your public funds to renovate and upgrade private commercial movie theaters all across Orleans and Genesee counties! Who says socialism isn’t alive and well within the republican party?
Problem is, the joke’s on you taxpayers – there are no qualifying movie theaters in either Orleans or Genesee counties.
Keep in mind voters, business & corporate taxes become public money. Tax “credits” equal less taxes owed, which in turn, means less public money for your schools, police protection, fire safety, water, street repairs, parks, public services and so forth.
Not only do you receive no benefit whatsoever from Claudia Tenney’s “timely and important” SCREEN Act legislation, your public resources are subsidizing these private business projects in other towns and cities! Finally, adding insult to injury, she then leaves it up to you to make up the difference in your own communities! What a gal!
How patently unfortunate. Just think of all that missed growth if only Albion had a newly renovated Main Street movie theater directly across from the real Santa Claus! Heck, even with Sneezy’s and The Olde Coach long gone, a colossal attraction of that magnitude would likely have drawn scores of people from as far away as Kent, Fancher or maybe even Millville! It sure makes me nostalgic for the old Rialto lost to the ages so long, long ago.
Oh well, no sense mourning what might have been. Perhaps Claudia can live up to her name and “claw back” enough of your corporate welfare, hard-earned tax dollars to at least re-open the Sunset Drive-In in Middleport. Which, by the way, was better than any movie theater around! Although it’s technically in Niagara County, it’s still way more than what you’re getting from this dud of a deal – nothing.
That reminds me Claudia, didn’t you catch Ms. Mager’s letter to The Hub a little while back? Here in New York State, we’re already terrified to walk our dogs in broad daylight let alone venture into the unknown just to see a movie. Perhaps a change in priorities is in order?
As for me, living on a fixed income makes it a challenge just to buy a small bag of popcorn and still feed my three-legged cats. Perhaps, if I could afford to turn the lights on, I could then find my car keys, roll up all my loose change, get to a gas station and buy a half-gallon of gasoline. Only then might I risk murder and mayhem for a trip to the closest movie theater. That being said, it’s already been six months since my brakes didn’t pass inspection. My how time flies when you’re winning under Donald Trump.
Rochester, Buffalo and their surrounding areas already have some of the finest movie theaters anywhere. The hard reality is that unless the “SCREEN ACT” has provisions to stop the rude jerk from talking in the row behind me, the oblivious idiot down in front lighting up the place with their cellphone, or reeling in the cost of a small Coca-Cola below $5.00 – neither I, nor most people, will be enticed any time soon to return to the cinema in spite of their tax-payer subsidized seating, sound systems and HVAC.
In other words, great give-a-way Claudia!
Voters, come this November, make a quick note to yourselves: “CLCL” in remembrance of Clueless Claudia and her “SCREEN ACT” which, in communities across America like Orleans and Genesee counties, will go over like passing gas in church.
Before I close, any guesses why all my cats have three legs?
Fact is, under the Tenney/Trump economy – it’s the only way we all can afford to eat!
In short, it’s not just for immigrants anymore.
Tom Graham,
Rochester
