Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Another taxpayer-funded boondoggle...

Another taxpayer-funded boondoggle ... that's biased towards progressives.  No surprise, really: the National Endowment for the Arts spends (in recent years) around $150 million of taxpayer money annually.  Some of this goes to art with a political message, and that message is overwhelmingly progressive – definitely not conservative and not libertarian.

Outrageous?  Yes.  Should we fix it?  Yes.  How?  By ending taxpayer subsidies of art!  I don't really care that the art has a progressive bias.  What I care about is that I'm helping pay for it!  Nobody asked me if I wanted to do that, but if they did, the answer would be loud and clear: no!  That would be true even if the art being subsidized had a message near and dear to me, because I don't believe that even one taxpayer dollar should go to something that certainly isn't an essential communal service...

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