[rollei_list] Re: OT: Corporate Responsibility and PublicGiving
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:44:49 -0800
Marc,
Right on, counselor! And bring back alms houses and debtors prisons!
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> At 12:54 PM 2/2/05 -0500, Fox, Robert wrote:
> >
> >You said "In the end, the taxpayers rebelled, the politicians reacted by
> >shutting down funding to make the voters happy.." This is a myth--there
> >was never any taxpayer rebellion over Andres Serrano's image in question
> >("Piss Christ").
> >
> >The only reason anyone outside of the NYC art community ever knew about
> >Serrano's exhibit was due to right-wing ideologues in Congress who were
> >looking for a good scapegoat to deny any public funding to arts of any
> >kind. They found a great scapegoat in Serrano.
> >
> >Meanwhile, the newly minted Secretary of Education in the current
> >administration has the identified the *real danger* that threatens all
> >children's education: the "Postcards from Buster" program on PBS.
> >
> >R.J.
>
> Robert
>
> With all due respect, that is bull shit. The voters in THESE hustings
> (central Virginia) were in an uproar as they were in many other parts of
> the nation.
>
> Around here, though, the voters are upset because they see no reason for
> taxpayer dollars to be spent on arts projects. In the end, this is a
> sensible attitude, as there is no way to justify taxpayer support for such
> an idiosyncratic area as art, where your likes and my likes can be so very
> different. The solution is to adopt the Fair Tax Plan, do away with the
> income tax, and revert to private funding.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
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