The AR-15 has not changed, so what has?

[Tahuyaman]

There is nothing wrong with that IMO.

So we agree. Arts and artists should survive on their own merits.

[gamewell45]

So we agree. Arts and artists should survive on their own merits.

I don't care whether arts and artists survive or not as long as my tax dollars aren't being spent on it.

[Tahuyaman]

I don't care whether arts and artists survive or not as long as my tax dollars aren't being spent on it.

I appreciate art in its various forms. However, government should not be funding starving artists. If one chooses to attempt to support himself through his artistic talents, don't expect taxpayers to bail you out if your work doesn't resonate with the publuc.

[CaveDog]

In my younger days I was a fairly serious musician and songwriter. Nothing earth shattering, but I was pretty good at it. Ultimately I just didn’t have the right combination of talent and business smarts to make it work in a commercial sense. Like most artists, I had to admit defeat and pursue a different career. I learned to live with it. Why then should I (and many others who failed in the arts) have to fund the career of some other artist who can’t achieve commercial success or find a patron other than government? Grossly unfair in my book.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Washington state will spend 113 million dollars funding art projects ove the next year and a half. Many counties and cities have enacted the same law. Some of projects are a tin sculpture in a run down area of a salmon catching a man on a rod and reel. They say it will help make the people in the neighborhood feel pride in ownership.

If these sculptures are not in a high visibility area, they get destroyed.

Most likely people plink at them with their AR 15s

[Tahuyaman]

Most likely people plink at them with their AR 15s

No. They smash them with a baseball bat.

[Private Pickle]

Mental health facilities for those who truly need it perhaps”.

just in the county I used to work in, we had two very large mental hospitals, one a state facility and one a county hospital which were boarded up. The actual mental health facility now is the county jail. That’s Effective

You can thank Reagan for that.

[Tahuyaman]

You can thank Reagan for that.

Reagan had no control over the state and county. They made the decision to shut those facilities down in 2003.

[Private Pickle]

I appreciate art in its various forms. However, government should not be funding starving artists. If one chooses to attempt to support himself through his artistic talents, don't expect taxpayers to bail you out if your work doesn't resonate with the publuc.

What about art and music programs in public schools?

[Private Pickle]

Reagan had no control over the state and county. They made the decision to shut those facilities down in 2003.

The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980...