Tax writeoffs by definition are taxpayers paying less. It reduces tax revenue and reduces the average tax paid by everyone. When your neighbor writes off their mortgage interest it does not raise your taxes.
If you don't like certain policies around tax deductions then argue that. I might even agree with you.
Fraudulently reducing tax revenue by 1 entity/individual effectively shifts the burden of taxation to everyone else who is not willing or able to commit the same fraud. At the macro level, this adds up to billions more dollars every year in the unmanageable and unmanageably-growing federal debt. The US federal government plans to spend 16% of its total spending simply on paying interest on its debt: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
So-called fiscal conservatives should be howling in Congress about this kind of thing. (Narrator: they aren't.)
Running a deficit can be profitable long term -- or not. It depends on how the funds are allocated. Ask Bezos.
Likewise a tax writeoff can increase tax revenue over the long term -- or not. It depends how the tax savings are applied. Ask the employees who still have their jobs.
Regardless, a media company struggling to breakeven with cartoon coyotes may not be the best starting point for an economics debate.
That's not what I said. For avoidance of doubt, allow me to rephrase the concept in the local language: paying a bunch of artists and engineers to build an app that generates minimal revenue, pulling it from the app store, then writing off the loss, is neither clever nor fraudulent.
And I think we both know quite well that the stuff that was aired still exists.