Petition to Support the ArtsThe Harper government's giveaway of $500 per child to support sportsactivities is glaringly unfair. Why sports and not the arts? Are those who spend a small fortune on giving their children music lessons, visual art, youth writing programs, dance, film & video-production (etc.), less worthyof support than hockey, soccer or other sports parents? Children will benefit throughout their whole lives, as will the various arts organizations, by investing in the arts. From the note I received:"... arts organizations, by the way, do not pay salaries measured in millions of dollars as do the sports teams."Please sign this petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/dbs201bl/
Note: Don't forget to add your postal code in the required address field (as I did!).
L. :)
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Hmm,
Could it be a different way of alotting government funds? In other words, "the arts" might be getting an equal amount of funding for all we know, but distrubuted in different ways. I think the incentive to enroll kids in sports is a good idea, as children these days are apparently physically less fit. I suppose they could be creatively unfit too, but maybe there is money going to arts funding in a different way cultural centers, community galleries, school funding for the arts, etc). It seems wierd to petition what a group is getting, when ultimately, we don't know what the other is getting.
I think they are taking a weird stance on this issue. With daycare, they said that parents know best how to use the money, whether their kids go into daycare or stay at home or whatever. I think the same should go for such 'extracurricular activities' as sports and arts. By the way, where does dance fall in all of this??
Thanks Greg
I tend to think that while intuitively this is an outrage, it is necessary to involve children in sports, as it is ncesseary to involve them in the arts.
My issue is that this assumes two things (mind you I haven't read the proposed legislation, et cetera):
1. It assumes that the child has recourse (financial, material, physical, mental, et cetera) to sports.
2. It assumes that the parent has recourse (as above) to sports.
I will not ponder the solution to these critiques, but will say that in the end, if done with fairness and appropriate safeguards that mitigate the issues above, then tax credits for involving children in sports I believe to be a good thing.
Yet this brings to light the very idea of 'tax crediting' people's behaviours, which I guess we already do, but here, it takes on a spectre that has a slippery slope on it.
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