Saturday, October 6, 2007

Ron Paul on the NEA

As a part-time Catholic church musician, I have always lived by the statement that the Church is the patron of the arts; not the government. I've always questioned the government's role in promoting the arts, since the grants that the National Endowment for the Arts gives to artists, so-called and otherwise, come not from voluntary donations, but forced taxes. Of course, the answer is that there shouldn't be such a bureaucracy as the NEA in the first place.

Unsurprisingly, this is Ron Paul's position.

The easiest way to research it is to search using the terms "'Ron Paul' 'National Endowment' arts" in your favorite search engine. Here are the results from Google and Yahoo.

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