New York Times Tries to Make the Case Against Cutting Arts Funding, Inadvertently Presents Excellent Argument for Cutting Arts Funding

New York Times Tries to Make the Case Against Cutting Arts Funding, Inadvertently Presents Excellent Argument for Cutting Arts Funding:

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“From today’s New York Times, a "http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/arts/kansas-and-other-states-cut-arts-funds.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1">
sad story about what happens when states are forced to cut funding
for the arts:

For 10 years Erika Nelson, an artist in Lucas, Kan., has been
making miniature models of giant pieces of Americana, putting them
in a van and driving around the country to show people.’

She has made tiny copies, for example, of the World’s Largest
Ball of Twine, which is down the road in Cawker City, and the
World’s Largest Can of Fruit Cocktail, which is in Sunnyvale,
Calif….

But this year she may not be able to travel far. Kansas, which
has one of the country’s smallest state arts budgets, has decided
to shrink it even further, to zero.

A traveling sideshow hauling a ball of twine and a normal-sized
can of fruit cocktail actually sounds weirdly appealing. But
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we are out of money, and it’s no-brainer to trim the 2,000
taxpayer dollars this lovely gal and her van were counting on for
gas money to show her quirky wares to college students in
Kansas.

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three reasons not to fund arts with taxpayer dollars:

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(Via Reason Magazine – Topics > Arts.)