The National Endowment For The Arts

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change their mind in support of the arts program.
One of the biggest arguments against federal funding for the arts is that it costs too much money and that the government is already in debt too severely to provide for something as unnecessary as art. True, the government is extremely in debt, but what most people don’t know is that the NEA actually helps the economy, rather than hurt it. First of all, the amount of money spent by the government is actually relatively insignificant to its total expenditures. Cultural funding is less than one one-hundredths of one percent (.001%) of the federal government’s multi-billion dollar budget, and it costs each American only thirty six cents per year. That is a small price to pay for such a big return.
How could such a program help the economy? On a national level, nonprofit arts institutions and organizations generate an estimated $37 billion in economic activity and return $3.4 billion in federal income taxes to the U.S. Treasury ...

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