week 5 reading; should government support the arts

• Pros of subsidies to the arts
• broaden the soul of a nation
• focus less on materials and more on morals, customs, and manners
• heightens industry ex: France
• Cons of subsidies to the arts
• takes subsidies away from other institutions like museums and universities 
• would harm cycle of needs and desires alternate in terms of primary use
• Opposing subsidies for something does not mean you oppose said thing
• simply means they should generate their own money
• Where do subsidies go?
• (visible side) they go to the main workers and employees and employers
• Where could they have gone?
• (invisible side) aid taxpayers whose wallets the money came; beyond that is comjecture
• Public spending
• results in relocations not gains
• benefits one worker in place of another
• substitution for private spending
• adds nothing to the working class as a whole