Thanks for the summary. Just trying to get my hands around the idea that from 2000 to today we printed/borrwed 36 trillion on top of what we collected as a country. Incredible amount of money. No wonder a starter home is almost 1/2 million dollars just about everywhere in America except little rural areas that see considerable population declines decade after decade.
I remember, decades ago, pitching a fit because the National Endowment for the Arts provided $75K for an "art project" actually made of shit. A gnat's ass on the tip of an iceberg, in the scheme of things...
The libertarian and the constitutionalist would reject all public funding for the arts, since it's not a core function of government.
As for gnat's asses - as a friend noted, every dollar wasted is an affront to taxpayers. $75K is roughly the median household income. It's "noise" compared to the size of the budget, but people err when they think that "noise" equates to justification for spending.
Thanks for the summary. Just trying to get my hands around the idea that from 2000 to today we printed/borrwed 36 trillion on top of what we collected as a country. Incredible amount of money. No wonder a starter home is almost 1/2 million dollars just about everywhere in America except little rural areas that see considerable population declines decade after decade.
I remember, decades ago, pitching a fit because the National Endowment for the Arts provided $75K for an "art project" actually made of shit. A gnat's ass on the tip of an iceberg, in the scheme of things...
The libertarian and the constitutionalist would reject all public funding for the arts, since it's not a core function of government.
As for gnat's asses - as a friend noted, every dollar wasted is an affront to taxpayers. $75K is roughly the median household income. It's "noise" compared to the size of the budget, but people err when they think that "noise" equates to justification for spending.