Tucked away neatly inside New York’s recently released $175 billion budget is a level of hypocrisy so rich that it could only be produced by the state’s political machine.

I’m talking about the tidy sum of $840 million in tax credits for TV and film producers who make their scenes here in New York.

This coming just weeks after some of the very same actors blew up the deal with Amazon for its Long Island City HQ, offering 25,000 new high-paying jobs, over — get this — tax credits.

That is called playing political favorites — or better stated, theft of good jobs. It is hypocrisy of the highest order.

I am all for states competing on tax incentives or any other legitimate means of attracting businesses to their ZIP codes. It makes the states more competitive and promotes growth.

It has long been known that when states and cities compete for jobs, they succeed in attracting and keeping industry.

And I agree there is a very good return on investment from New York’s giving of tax subsidies to the TV and film industry.

I could do without the 12 climate-controlled RVs and the bountiful buffets shoved in my face on my walk across town, but it’s a win for NY and its workers and that’s the point. So why would the treatment be so different for Amazon — it produces movies now, too. In fact, it actually received $26.5 million in film subsidies from NY and has already won multiple Oscars.

While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was very vocal on Valentine’s Day when celebrating her “victory” chasing Amazon out of NYC, she now seems to have no thoughts on a corporate handout to TV and film producers — you know, the Harvey Weinstein crowd. No words, just crickets.

What a phony. Say what you want about AOC, she is never at a loss for words.

To me jobs are jobs, and good jobs are better jobs. The more New York has, the better off New Yorkers will be.