National Endowment for the Arts: Bye Bye?

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...rump-plans-eliminate-national-endowment-arts/

President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration are planning to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of a broader effort to substantially slash government spending, according to a report.
The Hill reports that the plans to slash the arts endowments are part of a 10-year plan that would see government spending reduced by $10.5 trillion.

Other federal agencies that would see substantial reductions in spending include the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Transportation, State and Justice. According to the Hill, the plan includes privatizing the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.

The spending cuts are reportedly being discussed at the White House by two Trump transition team members, Russ Vought and John Gray.

The National Endowment for the Arts provides federal grants to artists and establishments like museums and theaters. The 14-member agency is currently headed by artist Jane Chu, and as of 2015 had an annual budget of $150 million.

The endowment was established in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but has become a controversial agency over time, as critics contend that taxpayers should not have to fund art they consider to be against their values, or obscene.


Previous administrations have proposed cutting federal funding of the NEA. According to a book by former NEA chairman Livingston Biddle, President Ronald Reagan considered eliminating the agency altogether upon taking office in 1981, but reconsidered when he realized the complexities involved in doing so. Reagan reportedly instead slashed the agency’s budget.

In the mid-90s, Republicans, led by then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, also attempted to eliminate the agencies, with little success.

In 2011, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) proposed a plan to eliminate the Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Spending Reduction Act of 2011 predicted that eliminating all three agencies, among other cuts, would save the federal government $2.5 trillion over 10 years.

As recently as December, Trump was reportedly considering veteran actor Sylvester Stallone to head the National Endowment for the Arts. According to the Daily Mail, the job was not formally offered to Stallone, though the actor was said to be “positively disposed to the idea.”
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Hmmm. Conflicted on this one.
 
Yeah. Little conflicted. I'd like to see what examples this program is funding before deciding if this is wasting money on the arts or actual something beneficial to society
 
@Devout Pessimist, isn't a big part of the point in electing an authoritarian white nationalist supposed to be that it's good for the arts?
 
DynamicLoosener said:
Fuck the arts, nobody growing up in the hood gives a shit about the "arts." Why don't they spend that 1 trillion a year giving computers to classrooms for their students to learn?

Thats probably the cigarette tax.
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it's 150 million a year. They say they'll save 10.5 trillion in 10yrs. Still, that fund also supports museums and theaters.
 
DynamicLoosener said:
Fuck the arts, nobody growing up in the hood gives a shit about the "arts." Why don't they spend that 1 trillion a year giving computers to classrooms for their students to learn?

Thats probably the cigarette tax.
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Could you please porn suicide yourself already. Your posts are consistently terrible and worthless.
 
Teppodama said:
it's 150 million a year. They say they'll save 10.5 trillion in 10yrs. Still, that fund also supports museums and theaters.
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it cant be 150 million a year if they save 10.5 trillion in 10 years. thats like.....math....
 
We need to cut out that stuff so we can spend more on the military. Because 550 billion a year is making us weak!
 
DynamicLoosener said:
it cant be 150 million a year if they save 10.5 trillion in 10 years. thats like.....math....
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Lol just what was reported. Math may not be they're strong suit. Lol
 
Uh oh, whatever will happen to all the Art History grads like KONG-D'SNT-TAP?
 
Sounds great. Arts are plenty self-sufficient and subsidizing them is at best an endeavor for charities, not national government.
 
Use that money to build the fucking wall.

Seriously, I'm all about museums but other shit should be funded in other ways....theatres??? C'mon. Does anybody even watch pbs anymore??? Most of that stuff was funded by the national endowment for the arts.
 
Ah, it's just part of the cuts package. Those along with the other props ed cuts would come out to the 10.5 trillion
 
We need to tax cigarettes more but not the nice cubans all of the rich people get from Columbia.
 
Apparently there are also proposed cuts to the Departments of commerce, energy, transportation, state and justice as part of that package. But the endowments to the arts and humanities are looking to cut altogether.
 
All the famous Hollywood SJW actors should be able to easily come up $150 mil, for a cause that you'd think they'd be passionate about...... yet, they'll continue to complain about capitalism from inside their $20 mil mansions, complain about global warming from inside of their private jets, and blame fly-over states for the death of "the arts".
 
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