{"id":443,"date":"2007-03-22T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-03-22T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T13:12:36","slug":"government-mandated-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Government Mandated Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/boortz.com\/nuze\/index.html\">Neal Boortz<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; A task force appointed by the Mayor has  determined that Atlanta needs a cultural investment fund in the amount of at  least $10 million that will provide money to artists, arts organizations and  what it refers to as &#8220;cultural organizations.&#8221; The suggestion is that  there should be a tax on businesses operating in Atlanta to provide the funds.  The story in this morning&#8217;s Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that &#8220;Many  of those who work in the arts in Atlanta said they hope to see some progress on  arts funding soon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>At this point you shouldn&#8217;t need a translation of that  quote from the AJC. But then again, many of you went to government  schools, so I&#8217;ll provide that translation for you. Many of the people in  the arts community in Atlanta remain frustrated by the fact that Atlanta  residents will not voluntarily pay for their art. So, of the Atlanta  residents won&#8217;t voluntarily buy their art, the government should step in and make them buy the art by seizing their money and transferring that money to  artists and arts organizations.<\/p>\n<p>And what about this idea of placing a special tax on  Atlanta businesses? What we have here is the arts community taking  advantage of the ignorance of our government-educated residents. They know  that many people think that if the tax is placed on the businesses this means  that the rank and file Atlantans won&#8217;t be paying for the art. Sadly,  they&#8217;re possibly right. Our education is so pathetic that most people  can&#8217;t noodle out the fact that all taxes paid by businesses are passed on to the  consumers of whatever service or goods they sell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Neal Boortz &#8230; A task force appointed by the Mayor has determined that Atlanta needs a cultural investment fund in the amount of at least $10 million that will provide money to artists, arts organizations and what it refers to as &#8220;cultural organizations.&#8221; The suggestion is that there should be a tax on businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}