So corporate welfare is bad, but Hollywood welfare is okay? What's the difference? Lionsgate, Disney, and Sony are just as much corporations as Exxon Mobil, Boeing, or Wells Fargo, and just because it's an independent production company doing business with them doesn't make it any nobler.

Please point out another industry that demands state and provincial leaders drop to their knees and pucker up.

The best thing for everyone (except the West Coast prima donas) would be for every single state to tell the entire industry to go to blazes, and that that they'll pay full taxes from now on.