Production subsidies: enough to matter, and are we willing?

For those of you in (or interested in) the film industry:

I was in a meeting this morning in Salt Lake City (good meeting, lovely people) where Utah's relative lack of incentives, subsides and tax credits for film production was mentioned. This is often a passion-inducing topic: in the industry, the migration of production work from California to Canada is often explained by Canada's high subsidies (and in California there are wide-reaching campaigns to "keep Hollywood in Hollywood"). Utah's i...