$50,000 Paintings

You would think that a fine piece of art was being purchased for $50,000 a piece.  Can you imagine the beauty of such a work of art?  Of course you could until you found out what was really being painted:

"Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece."

Now, are you surprised?  The government seems to think that the only way to keep an artist from starving is to throw money at them like a street beggar.  Isn't that what some artist have become - street beggars?  An artist that can't survive without government subsidies is not an artist.  Sorry to burst some bubbles.

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Only today do we hear from Paul Volcker who is now suggesting a "value added tax" or federal sales tax along with carbon taxes over cutting government waste!  I thought they said he was brilliant.  Nope - he is just big government. 

Here is a better suggestion - cut spending, abolish the income tax and concurring amendment to the Constitution, and go with the FairTax.  But if they did that, then they would lose all power to control us - that is the ultimate goal of an out of control government is it not?