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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Call me Rick Bell, but show me where the millions of dollars we have spent on "art" has made anyones life better. The money could be utilized to fund after school programs, shelters etc., way better than any art work is doing.
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Would you prefer a city with drab, brutalist Soviet-style buildings, buskers and street festivals made illegal, and streets devoid of all landscaping, murals and any even remote signs of life?
City projects devote 1% of their project budget to art. Please tell me how this percentage cut negatively impacts your life and how that same money can revolutionize education, social programs, and homelessness. Those are three areas every province has been dealing with for years.
Believe it or not, people like having some sense of culture and environment in their city. Art funding supports that. As it should.