arts

In any list of programs that could be easily cut without much disruption — except to a small rent-seeking elite — is arts funding. It cannot be argued as being essential to the functioning of society as in, say, infrastructure or courts, and a large share the benefits flow to the well-off.

Now in Canada, the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has come to that conclusion. In doing so, it has unintentionally exposed another reason to not establish such programs in the first place: To keep from breeding a rent-seeking constituency so coddled that its members aren’t even good at whining. Reports Canada’s CTV: [click to continue…]