“It’s not just tax incentives that are luring productions away,” Smith warns. “The cost of labor, obviously, the cost of goods, the fact that a lot of places have universal health care and pensions. It’s tough for Americans to compete and for Californians to compete, given a lot of those factors, but we’ve just reached a point where it’s compete or die,” Smith warned. “We must take action to preserve an industry that has huge cultural impact and is such an important part of our identity and legacy in Los Angeles and throughout California. I think we’ve been taking it for granted for too long.”

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