http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/arts/6429-should-not-the-government-support-the-arts.htmlShould Not The Government Support The Arts?
19 July 2011 Frederic Bastiat
It is clear that the taxpayer, who has contributed one franc, will no longer have this franc at his own disposal. It is clear that he will be deprived of some gratification to the amount of one franc; and that the workman, whoever he may be, who would have received it from him, will be deprived of a benefit to that amount. Let us not, therefore, be led by a childish illusion into believing that the vote of the 60,000 francs may add anything whatever to the well-being of the country, and to national labor. It displaces enjoyments, it transposes wages — that is all.
Ken-G. Johansen.
