Sure there is a $120 million budget shortfall, but not spending $4 million on public art is off the table!

While Denver struggles with a $120-million budget shortfall, the city continues to push forward with almost 4-million dollars in art projects. According to an internal spreadsheet produced by city administrators, 47 projects are on tap across the city for an estimated $3,850,000. That dollar-figure does not take into account the fact that at least 4 projects slated by the city were given an "unknown" dollar estimate in the spreadsheet.

http://www.i2i.org/main/page.php?page_id=275

The independence institute has also placed an MP3 about the issue on the site, if you follow the link to the full story.

Think about this the next time a tax decrease is proposed or something else that limits the government, and the bureaucrats start threatening to cut the police/fire/roads/school budgets yet make no mention of any of the less popular programs, like Denver’s bad art subsidy program.