Kansas Set to Become Only State to Eliminate Arts Commission

[The Straight Story]

Kansas Set to Become Only State to Eliminate Arts Commission

Sam Brownback Guam has one. So do Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and every one of the 50 states. But soon Kansas won’t have one…that being a state arts commission.

Under Republican Governor Sam Brownback, Kansas will become the only state in the country not to have an agency dedicated to promoting the arts. The conservative Brownback insists the move is entirely fiscal, and based on the fact that state spending needs to be trimmed.

But by eliminating the $574,000 budget for the Kansas Arts Commission, Brownback will cause a negative ripple effect that will result in the state losing, not saving, money.

Killing the commission means Kansas will lose $778,300 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and $437,767 in funding from the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Kansas_Set_to_Become_Only_State_to_Eliminate_Arts_Commission_110126

[LiberalFighter]

1. So by eliminating the commission

they will have $642,067 less to use instead of $574,000 to spend on something else.

I wonder where else he will cut that will result in further loss of funding beyond the cut?

Wasn't this guy a U.S. Senator?

[bhcodem]

2. Begs the question..

will the National Endowment for Arts have its funding cut by the Republican house???