Last week in the New York Times, Emory professor Mark Bauerlein made a surprising pitch to President Trump: don’t kill the National Endowments for Humanities and the Arts—hijack them.
I see no harm in just funding a lot of boring non-controversial stuff, symphony orchestras and scinece and art and history museums. I would not call this "conservative at all except that historically public funding for such things has been uncontroversial.
I don't see any harm either, but since we are 36 trillion in debt, we have to cut somewhere. The arts will still be funded by wealthy patrons, but it's not a necessity.
Actually, no, we do not have to cut “somewhere.” We could just decided to pay for things. As long as we make a conscious decision of tax vs cut, that’s fine. But with Trump planning a trillion dollar per year package of tax cuts,
I see no harm in just funding a lot of boring non-controversial stuff, symphony orchestras and scinece and art and history museums. I would not call this "conservative at all except that historically public funding for such things has been uncontroversial.
I don't see any harm either, but since we are 36 trillion in debt, we have to cut somewhere. The arts will still be funded by wealthy patrons, but it's not a necessity.
Actually, no, we do not have to cut “somewhere.” We could just decided to pay for things. As long as we make a conscious decision of tax vs cut, that’s fine. But with Trump planning a trillion dollar per year package of tax cuts,
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/a-trump-budget-scorecard
NEA looks like a low priority for deficit reduction.
Funding symphony orchestras is “boring non-controversial stuff”? Really?
Yeah, If you don’t like the content, change it. I’m not a revolutionary. :)