buckee Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Your Tax dollars support sickness masquerading as art at Sundance Film Festival Contact Your U.S. Senators and Representative Today! There were two films featured at the Sundance Film Festival. One, "Hounddog," featured a scene where a 12-year-old girl was raped. The other film, "Zoo," was about a man having sex with a horse. Your tax dollars were used to support the Sundance Film Festival. The National Endowment for the Arts gave between $100,000 and $249,000 to help underwrite the festival, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) gave between $50,000 and $99,999. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) gets millions of dollars to support "art." A few years ago the NEA helped fund a crucifix submerged in urine and named "Pis- Christ." NEA has sponsored similar "art" projects with tax dollars. PBS gets tax funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Every other non-profit broadcasting station must raise their own funds, but CPB and PBS are funded with hundreds of millions of tax dollars. PBS is probably the most liberal network in America. Hollywood has hundreds of millions of dollars to underwrite the cost of the Sundance Film Festival, but they would rather use your tax dollars than their own money. Together, these two organizations provided upwards of $350,000 of tax money to the film festival. The arts community annually gets over a billion dollars from private sources to finance their art. Yet they still go to Congress to ask for receive, millions of tax dollars. And the receive it. What did the taxpayer get for his money? CLICK HERE to see part of an earlier letter about the Sundance Film Festival. Take Action Send emails to your two U.S. Senators and Representative concerning this issue. Ask your Senators and Representatives to stop providing tax dollars to support the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS. Let these two organizations be funded with public donations, not tax dollars. Click Here to Email Your Senators and Representative Now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Re: Your Tax Dollars and The Arts I watch PBS quite a bit. I have zero problems with it because it is the only place I can watch the "Red Green Show" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParrotHead Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Re: Your Tax Dollars and The Arts I have no problem with the NEA giving money to support Sundance. What I do have a problem with is the people that make this crap and more of a problem with the people that allow it to be shown or support it. Redford while I don't support his political agendas has always seemed to be someone with a little common sense - I guess he's a great actor because his support of these types of films puts him right up there with the porno film makers and watchers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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