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administered the distribution of the bed tax money.
Arts support is tourism development. You had to be
engaged in an activity that directly benefited tourism,
and it went 50/50 to the arts and business. Then 70/30.
Guess which one was sucking hind-titty. The council called the bed tax
an arts tax. I called it a huckster tax. I said the money went to the media
that ran ads for the arts activities. Newspapers, radio, and television stations.
And advertising agencies. Liars and thieves. Ambulance-chasing lawyers
and whiplash doctors. The patrons of the arts were siphoning off
the arts largesse. They left the artists sucking hind-titty.
Of a 70/30 split, it was hucksters 70, artists 30.
And the arts activities had to directly encourage
tourism. To me, an artist said, “Stay Home.
Go Back Where You Came From.
Support Art There.”