“Time and again evaluations of state programs with much larger film incentives than Maine’s have conclusively shown they are a bad investment that siphon millions of dollars in public funds from other priorities and give public money to big Hollywood studios and production companies,” said Maura Pillsbury, a tax analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy, which opposes expanding the credits.” Maine is too small to compete with these massive giveaways in other states, and we shouldn’t try.”