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                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 31, 1990                   TAG: 9007310383
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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FUND OBJECTIONABLE ART AND RAISE TAXES?

OUR LEADERS in the U.S. Senate (including Warner and Robb) have voted to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts with virtually no restrictions on what our tax money will be supporting. This is despite the recent public outcry over the grants to "artists" who could produce nothing more than obscene or blasphemous exhibits.

At the same time, our leaders tell us that they need to raise taxes to help reduce the budget deficit.

Many of these legislators are the same ones who year after year vote to increase funding for every pet project known to man, as well as some that are known only to a very few. Then they have the audacity to blame the budget deficit on anything or anybody but themselves.

The line-item veto looks better and better. STANLEY A. KNOTT WOOLWINE 


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