Last week, as we shared concerns about New York’s economic development grants to private enterprises, we said the state should eliminate its $420-million-a-year giveaways to the film and television industry. That was before we read this week that those subsidies included at least $5 million to the Weinstein Co.

That firm was then run by Harvey Weinstein, one of the world’s top movie producers who is now infamous as numerous women accuse him of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. He had settled such complaints quietly in the past, and he also allegedly ruined, or threatened to ruin, the careers of women who didn’t do his will. It was said to be an open secret in Hollywood circles, but too many people were afraid because he had power to make or break them.

Now his own company has fired him, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expelled him, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has suspended him, his wife has left him, police are investigating him, politicians he backed are denouncing him and the entertainment industry is seeing a wave of disclosures by women who say they, too, were treated this way. A sordid workplace culture, soaked in the Playboy ethos of the 1960s, enabled people like Weinstein for far too long.

It seems Weinstein was pretty good at getting taxpayers to enable him, too.

After receiving more than $400,000 in New York tax credits between 2011 and 2014, the Weinstein Co. got $4.6 million from state taxpayers in 2016 as back payment for the 2014 movie “St. Vincent,” starring Bill Murray, plus more for an unnamed production from Weinstein subsidiary Coed Films. That’s according to Empire State Development data reported by Crain’s New York Business.

It’s just another example of a man drunk with power using his leverage to make people give him what he wants.

The numbers are offensive enough, setting aside Weinstein’s behavior. ESD listed “St. Vincent”‘s total spending at $21 million, small for a movie budget, yet it made $54.8 million at the box office. Weinstein and his colleagues are extremely rich and clearly don’t need welfare, yet New York taxpayers covered 22 percent of the cost of making his movie — from which he made a major profit.

He didn’t even give New York taxpayers free tickets.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who received more than $110,000 in campaign donations from Weinstein, has also been a huge proponent of the movie-TV subsidies. That was a pretty good exchange for the moviemaker, dollar-wise. This is a textbook case for why campaign finance laws should be tightened. [Note: Cuomo, under pressure, agreed to give these Weinstein donations to charity instead of keep them.]

Now Cuomo supports a bill from state Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, that would make companies seeking the film tax credit disclose sexual harassment and sexual assault claims filed against them. Those with problematic patterns might not get the money. The movie-TV industry is resisting this move, which makes Rosenthal and Cuomo look tough, but really, this bill is far too little, too late. Our political culture needs to completely stop this ridiculous practice of giving rich, greedy moviemakers our hard-earned tax dollars simply because they are moviemakers. Until we do, we are enabling their abuse of all of us — not just aspiring actresses.

So far, that injustice hasn’t been enough to get rid of these giveaways. Maybe the Weinstein scandal will finally prevail in motivating New York politicians to do what’s right.