The National Endowment For The Arts Funds Political Propaganda

Stephanie

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The First agency that needs to be CUT out of this Government is the NEA. they are using our tax dollars/MONEY to fund political BS like this play. wake up people this agency is NOT NEEDED for us to live

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The National Endowment For The Arts Funds Political Propaganda

Would the federal government ever fund a sculpture promoting the Second Amendment? No. So why does it fund projects promoting open borders?


February 23, 2016 By Elizabeth Harrington
A play promoting the benefits of entitlement reform. A sculpture honoring the Second Amendment. An exhibition displaying the history of traditional marriage. None of these projects has received taxpayer funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), or ever will. But the reverse is true for pet issues of the Left.



Dear Taxpayers: Thanks for Paying Us to Inform Your Politics
Taxpayers funded a play that centers on Michael Brown, which employs the thoroughly debunked “hands up, don’t shoot” meme.

Name a liberal political issue—gun control, climate change, open immigration, gender identity—and you can find a government-funded art project that promotes it.
“It may have set some kind of speed record for turning a news event into a theatrical one,” Peter Marks began his review for the Washington Post in November 2014. “Three months after Ferguson, Mo., became a household name, the city’s unrest over a white police officer’s killing of a black teenager has been incorporated into a play.”

The play, “Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America,” put on by the New York City theater group Ping Chong and Company, was not the only theatrical production to receive NEA funding on such a political topic. “We Are Dinosaurs” secured $15,000 to “explore race relations in our country with a focus on the recent deaths of young African-American men in police shootings.”

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National Endowment For The Arts Funds Political Propaganda
 
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We don't need to fund art glorifying the 2nd Amendment. It's all over the place, and all over popular media.
 
Read the Constitution. It's not very long. The powers of Congress are laid out completely in Article I, Section 8. The Tenth Amendment says that the powers not granted to Congress in the Constitution are reserved to the States and the people.

Where does Congress get the power to fund the National Endowment for the Arts?

Nowhere. It doesn't exist.

And parenthetically, what is the "compromise" position on this issue. Congress either has the power to spend our money on this boondoggle or it doesn't. Zero: One. Yes or no.

No compromise is possible.
 
The consumers of the arts. People who buy paintings, listen to music, attend the theatre. Why should the bureaucrats decide what "art" is worthy? It's up to the public.

The public already supports the shit out of art. Ever heard of Taylor Swift?
 

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