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Curtis Yarvin writes on his oppinion on government support for the arts:

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The difference is that presumably you are old enough now to pay
for your own artistic voices, and do not have to stick a gun in
the back of poor Great-Aunt Mildred, who has not read anything
but TV Guide since 1974 and cannot tell artistic voices from
the mating calls of plumbing.

Do not automatically assume that you are superior to old bag
Mildred and thus have a right to take her money; even were the
former true the latter is not, I think, the sort of precedent
you want to be setting.
*/

Aunt Mildred also knows (and cares) nothing for the trillions spent on
defence, government subsidy of business, welfare, and lots of other things.
Government already takes it upon itself to decide 1) that people should pay
taxes, and 2) what to spend it on.

Are you arguing that one shouldn't subsidize the arts because some
taxpayers don't care about it?


--
Alan


alan_barclay@mindlink.bc.ca

"When is a leg of lamb like a poet?"

Answer: "When it's browning."