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Posted Anonymously |
Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Feb 27 2008, 12:12 AM EST
The government should only take our money for the most serious of purposes. Art is wonderful and we all enjoy visiting an art gallery every weekend but we should pay for our own entertainment not have it subsidised by the government.
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Andy38 |
1. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Feb 27 2008, 1:19 AM EST
Yep.
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2. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Feb 27 2008, 2:33 AM EST
Not just art, but the arts in general. We all have our own tastes, but the government plays favourites by subsidising only some of them. We can't afford to (nor should we) subsidise them all, so let's be fair about it. Let's have the taxes in our pockets so we can spend the money on the arts we each like. Whether it's opera or rap music. 5 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you? |
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3. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Mar 7 2008, 9:35 PM EST
art is a cultural device and as every country has its own rich culture so should we, and we should nurture it, however without government support alot of the arts would be uneconomic to produce and our art/culture would suffer.
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4. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Mar 24 2008, 9:47 PM EDT
"The government should only take our money for the most serious of purposes. Art is wonderful and we all enjoy visiting an art gallery every weekend but we should pay for our own entertainment not have it subsidised by the government. "We - the people - as represented by our government - build venues for sport, subsidise research and development for industry, support health services both preventative and remedial - why not support culture and the arts? This is the VSU argument over again - essentially the arts and everything else that we support form part of the fabric of who we are as a community. Singling out the arts for exemption from support says you don't want it to exist at all - fairly judgemental isn't it? 5 out of 7 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Andy38 |
5. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Mar 25 2008, 5:28 AM EDT
"We - the people - as represented by our government - build venues for sport, subsidise research and development for industry, support health services both preventative and remedial - why not support culture and the arts? This is the VSU argument over again - essentially the arts and everything else that we support form part of the fabric of who we are as a community. Singling out the arts for exemption from support says you don't want it to exist at all - fairly judgemental isn't it? "Those things you mention, the state has no place doing any of them either. "says you don't want it to exist at all" That is exactly what it doesn't say, personally I place a high value on science and a relatively low one on 'the arts' however that is irrelevant as I recognise that support for either is not properly a collective decision but an individual one. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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6. RE: Stop spending taxpayers money on art
Mar 26 2008, 7:57 PM EDT
Its not just that art is entertainment. if it was we could import stuff from overseas they way we do with rock stars and people could pay for themselves. No, art is much more than that. It is something that almost everyone can do. It is not just good relaxation, it can be therapy. But more importantly than that, it expresses who we are as a people, crosses multicultural bridges, enhances our surroundings, and is an excellent way of making political comment - "a picture is worth a thousand words". By art, I am not just referring to painting and drawing. I am referring to EVERYTHING we do that is considered cultural. This includes Grafitti, rap dancing, embroidering doyleys, children making stick men out of paddlepop sticks, all forms of music - and also glorious paintings and sculptures done by us for display in our community, and in our homes. People can't just turn out high quality work without training, experience and the opportunity to do it fulltime. It is these people who need funding, not just our pleasure. At the other end, if everyone is to benefit from creativity, we need full and open access to such work at school and beyond school, in the work training places - technical schools as well as universities.
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