National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities Elimination Bill

[Sam Spade]

Just as a reminder to those involved, even if this doesn't pass, it is still scheduled to be cut as part of the 2005 budget, of which the final changes will happen in October.

[Sam Spade]

Not to mention that much of this money goes to the shows that air on PBS.  So you guys basically just killed Public Broadcasting.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which deals with PBS mostly) is not included in this legislation; it is a different admistrative branch.

However it was cut from the budget in July, and all cuts from then will become final in October.

[Sam Spade]

A few comments from the GM (and former Senator):

Eliminating the budget would, how should we say, unsettle the economic situation in Atlasia.  I'll simply say that much.

The fact is that budgets are extremely complicated and take time.  As GM, I can tell you that simplifying the budget will proportionally yield lesser returns for the amount of money spent, as it does for all things involved with government spending in general.

As to the year-long vs. four-month long question, this was debated when I was in the Senate during the Budget Amendment.  The overall consensus at that time was that doing a budget every four months was too much work and that it should be every year.

If there is a want to change it now, then there should be a change, but be aware of the amount of work necessary to go into it.