Posted on 12/24/2020 9:36:01 AM PST by marcusmaximus
For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last: it includes $15 billion to help them weather a crisis that has closed theaters and silenced halls.
The money, part of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, is designed to help the culture sector — from dive-bar rock clubs to Broadway theaters and museums — survive.
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Broadway theaters, which have been closed since March, applauded the relief package.
“We are grateful for this bipartisan agreement which will provide immediate relief across our industry and a lifeline to the future,” Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League, the trade organization for producers and theater owners, said in a statement.
Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, said that the aid would be crucial for nonprofit theaters. “Our situation was critical and dire,” she said.
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The bill allows independent entertainment businesses, like music venues and movie theaters, along with other cultural entities, to apply for grants from the Small Business Administration to support six months of payments to employees and for costs including rent, utilities and maintenance. Applicants must have lost at least 25 percent of their revenue to qualify, and those that have lost more than 90 percent will be able to apply first, within the first two weeks after the bill becomes law.
Grants will be capped at $10 million.
The core of those provisions were proposed in the Senate in July by Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, and John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
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Cornyn is a RINO. He gets re-elected on name recognition only.
I can’t believe I voted for cornyn. I wrote him a letter urging him to dispute this fraud of an election. His form letter that he sent to his constituents Is basically a concession speech where in he states we must work for a smooth transition to the new administration. Phony, corrupt career politician. He used me. Bastard.
99.9998% for me and my good friends.....
0.0002% for you my poor friend.
He showed his true colors long before this. He was one of that group that included McConnell, Thune, Rubio, Graham, Barrasso, Alexander, etc that hates everything about the President and just wants to rake in the dough through all the money laundering they commit with taxpayer money.
The people of Texas should have tossed him to the trash a long time ago.
It’s time to scrap the 17th Amendment and let state legislatures sent whoever they want to represent them. Think of the money that will NOT be paid to the media, advisors, special interests and talking heads.
You could give every single one of those “artists” one million dollars and it would cost less than the 15 billion in this bill.
Yeah, have to protect the arts...
ROTF LMAO
Small businesses, largely, are small businesses. The arts should not be excluded categorically.
Now the Devil is in the details as to whether these are appropriate or not.
Right, the feral government should bail out businesses damaged by local policies.
It was rather stunning to listen to Biden complain about the poor economy (without acknowledging any cause for its condition), and then essentially pledge to shut it down and keep it that way.
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