"Masterpiece Theatre"? Oh, you mean the programming my tax dollars go to buy from the BBC? And the "arts programming" on PBS---that's suspiciously broad brush---you approve all of it? Why, what am I saying---of course you do! In contrast to people who disagree with you on this issue, you're a real maven of the arts, aren't you?
Should it really be tax subsidized for my pleasure, because it is elevating to those that would not otherwise be exposed, and thus an uplift in the aesthetic pleasure of those that don't go to the theatre?
Be still, my beating redmeat heart! Don't you know I love it when you talk arty to me? I don't see how any of us can disagree with you now, now that you've made it clear that the spending is all for our uplift.
I don't know, but don't worry much about it, because the absolute dollars spent are so low.
Oh, absolutely. It's only when you have a few billion here and a few billion there that it adds up to real money, just like that great RINO Everett Dirksen once said.
What I worry more about, is government spending which involves big bucks, that in some way must be paid for by more than just those that are RINO country clubbers, who live off trust funds, or maybe even made their money honorably.
Doggone it if you and I don't agree on something. Maybe you can establish a "threshold Federal expenditure amount of concern" for the mass of us unwashed conservatives here at FR, below which we have no right to be exercised over its expense.
By the way, I don't belong to a country club. I don't play golf - at least not yet.
Oh, I believe you.