Also Hollywood and the arts community: Please give us money!
How about they just tap SAG? Get the actors/actresses to pony up.
No kidding.
You mean all those filthy rich Hollywood types and music superstars cannot fund their own endowments for the arts?
Artists are like everyone else - they need to either find paying audiences or sponsors of their work. The government has absolutely NO business funding arts of any kind.
Hollywood has money flowing out it’s ears ,pay for it yourself
Only 15%? Abolish it entirely.
Also abolish the dept of Education (don’t just reorganize it under another dept).
Privatize Amtrak.
Abolish federal funding for PBS and NPR.
Privatize the US Mail to the greatest extent possible.
There are plenty of other wasteful programs to eliminate, but getting rid of these would be a good start.
By all rights, there are any number of elites (Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, etc) or foundations that could easily cough up the money to keep these programs funded.
Though we are 25 years removed from the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy, the point still remains that due to the diverse and sometimes controversial nature of art, expecting taxpayers to fund it is completely irresponsible. these artists do not have a right to expect their projects to be funded with taxpayer dollars.
I’m all for 100% slash.
Let artist make things other people want to buy or attend or let them do their hobby while holding down a real job.
Press releases disguised as news, touting leftists.
“Slash” doesn’t mean cutting 15 percent. It means LEAVING 15 percent ... right before eliminating the funding altogether.
Quit subsidizing unmarketable garbage.
If it cuts Hollywood, go ahead. Cut heavily. Movies are the pits with all the emphasis on special effects and little on good drama. Speilberg has been unintelligible lately,for example. Language is unacceptable. Gay propaganda is inacceptable and should always show in the reviews to warn viewers. Hollywood is another swamp!
Hollywood should be force to move to Mexico they hire them for the work around the house anyway and it would be cheaper.
As I scan the horizon, I see plenty of “arts” in my community. Concerts, plays, private museums and galleries. There is no shortage of “arts” and the government does not need to be subsidizing them.
The charitable donations and grants to the arts, from individuals, corporations, foundations and non-profit organizations is in the multiple billions of dollars, and massively dwarfs the collective federal and state tax-supported money to the arts. The collective private money clearly demonstrates there is no need for the government involvment, even for the arts. The American people on their own take care of the arts, without the government.
How’s bout some conditions:
Make films without any violence, smut or trashy people.
I dare ya!
They're NOT a 'community'...
And while we're at it our "intelligence' people are NOT a community either - they're a government 'intelligence bureaucracy...'
Time for us to STOP using their BS lying words.