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“States have been bidding against each other, giving higher and higher exemptions, offering better and better deals for the film industry, and you imagine that at some point, if all states are awarding exemptions, we are back where we started", Christine Ries, professor in the School of Economics, discusses negative possibilities of film industry tax breaks in Georgia. Source: Fox News, June 5, 2013.