Garden State Patriot

As a conservative, this story almost makes me chuckle.

New Jersey, believe it or not, actually has a law requiring funding for the arts. The law has a minimum requirement for each fiscal year. For next year, the minimum amount of funding is supposed to be $16M bucks.

Now, with the state in a fiscal mess, Corzine decided to balance the budget on the backs of starving artists by, illegally, underfunding the arts by $1.6M. As usual, when liberals don’t like a law they just ignore it. So, former Governor Kean jumps into the fray and has threatened to sue in order to force Corzine’s hand. 

Now, I understand the political reasons for Kean attacking Corzine on this, but as a conservative I have to wonder what kind of Republican favors using taxpayer money to support something the government should not be involved in at all.

Governor Kean, you ought not to be pushing for another $1.6M for the arts. You ought to be pushing to have the law requiring this funding repealed so that $16M of taxpayer money is saved. See, that’s what Republicans are supposed to due – keep taxes low and not waste our money on things like this which should be left to the marketplace.

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude! and Red County.