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Originally Posted by jaysay
All this fuss about two bobs worth of tax payers money being spent on these projects, yet not a word was said when Blair and Brown were throwing billions of the same Tax Payers money about like confetti
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Wrong.
There have been plenty of threads about other ways government, both national and local, have wasted tax payers' money, and there are many threads I've posted in, voicing my opinion. This thread is specific to the funding of publicly funded art.
'Two bob'?
I'd hardly call many thousands of pounds that, but as you've mentioned it, every penny paid in tax is hard earned, and I was always taught, if you look after the pennies, or two bob, the pounds look after themselves.
Perhaps if this was the case we wouldn't be living in a society which denies life saving treatments to children, because there aren't enough funds in our health care system to pay for them.
This thread isn't about party politics, it's about whether we value the worth of publicly funded art projects.
I, and it seems many others, don't.