In trying times, arts are one of the *first* things that can and should lose taxpayer support. Government should not be involved with determining the positively and negatively sanctioned forms of art. Let the people decide. After all, art and culture are everywhere. If people want to spend their own money on it, then they should. Anything else, spurious claims about how we need and must have art, and so on and forth… are just arbitrary preferences determined by special interest groups and politicians imposed on the country as a whole. It’s ridiculous.

Giving money to the arts is ALWAYS a bad idea, but particularly in times of crisis.

The people are never without art and they never will be.