Guess What Might Be Abolished Now
From the Tom Woods Letter:
Well, how about this:
There have been sharp cutbacks at the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), amidst word that the President would like to see them both abolished.
Word that the Department of Education would be abolished sent left-liberals into a frenzy: why, this will be a terrible blow for education! After all, the Department of Education has the word “Education” in its name!
You, dear reader, are thankfully more sophisticated than that.
You know perfectly well that the abolition of these unconstitutional federal departments will not mean we won’t have any arts or humanities.
The annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts is in the neighborhood of $200 million. Private funding of the arts, on the other hand, is in the billions annually. So we would indeed survive without the NEA — as indeed we did for our entire existence before 1965.
I might add that modernism in art often carried with it a sense of entitlement: artists came to believe that if voluntary support for their work was not forthcoming, this was a failure of the public rather than of their art.
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