1000s of jobs really? that's IF they were EVER going to film something in their state to begin with.
"In FY 2015 alone, Georgia-lensed feature films and television productions generated an economic impact of
$6 billion."
They already were shooting there.
Georgia Film and TV Production - Georgia Department of Economic Development
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yeah and, ? you want to live by being blackmailed too. what freaking country are we living in when a corporation CAN THREATEN THE CITIZENS who live in it if they don't pass some LAW in their own states?
We live in a country where corporations are now people. Ms. Disney and Mr. NFL are merely expressing their first amendment rights.
1 U.S. Code § 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
Current through Pub. L.
114-38. (See
Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise—
words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things;
words importing the plural include the singular;
words importing the masculine gender include the feminine as well;
words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present;
the words “insane” and “insane person” shall include every idiot, insane person, and person non compos mentis;
the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
“officer” includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office;
“signature” or “subscription” includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such;
“oath” includes affirmation, and “sworn” includes affirmed;
“writing” includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388,
61 Stat. 633; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 6,
62 Stat. 859; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 1,
65 Stat. 710;
Pub. L. 112–231, § 2(a), Dec. 28, 2012,
126 Stat. 1619.)
U.S. Code, Chapter 1, section 1.
This is the statute that states that a corporation is a "person."
To change that, you would have to burn down every law library in the United States, since this definition of a person applies to every statute in every law book in this country.
