The Arts
People keep talking of cuts. In the meantime I live in Exeter, part of Devon and I pay my taxes to both the City and the County.
Now yesterday I attended a meeting of the Environment, Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee of Devon County Council. Now this committee were discussing the 'Arts Investment and Culture Projects' and in this there were proposals for various schemes which the County thought it good to fund.
Now individuals can look up these proposals for themselves but as a taster £400,000 goes to the Arts Investment Programme, £65,000 goes to Cultural & Heritage Outreach Activities, and another £65,000 goes to Other Cultural Projects.
This is probably being repeated around this once great country of ours, and it is time to stop. I have earned my money, I have paid my taxes, and I seriously resent any of my taxes, our money, going to a dance company, heritage outreach, or a cultural Olympiad which is just a taster of where money is going.
So the government should close down with immediate the Culture, Media, and Sport department. At his time we seriously cannot afford them, not funded by any taxpayer money at all. So, that is my first suggestion to the government, the Treasury, stop funding parts of our economy which serve no useful purpose at all. You want culture, media or sport, well you pay for it, and that includes the 'arts'.
Now yesterday I attended a meeting of the Environment, Economy and Culture Scrutiny Committee of Devon County Council. Now this committee were discussing the 'Arts Investment and Culture Projects' and in this there were proposals for various schemes which the County thought it good to fund.
Now individuals can look up these proposals for themselves but as a taster £400,000 goes to the Arts Investment Programme, £65,000 goes to Cultural & Heritage Outreach Activities, and another £65,000 goes to Other Cultural Projects.
This is probably being repeated around this once great country of ours, and it is time to stop. I have earned my money, I have paid my taxes, and I seriously resent any of my taxes, our money, going to a dance company, heritage outreach, or a cultural Olympiad which is just a taster of where money is going.
So the government should close down with immediate the Culture, Media, and Sport department. At his time we seriously cannot afford them, not funded by any taxpayer money at all. So, that is my first suggestion to the government, the Treasury, stop funding parts of our economy which serve no useful purpose at all. You want culture, media or sport, well you pay for it, and that includes the 'arts'.
posted by Catch22 at 2:50 AM
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