Next, a 1% sales tax for alternative energy assistance. Then 1% for urban bird houses. Then 1% for suspenders for youth with sagging britches.... If the public likes art, it will buy art. It doesn't need gov't forcing its taste on them. If this was going towards something that truly alleviated human suffering, like homeless shelters or public health clinics I could see it, but art is in the eye of the beholder. Will graffiti "artists" be subsidized now? Why not? To many of them what they are doing is beautifying their environment. Forcing others to pay for your idea of beautification is tyrannical and despotic. Shame, shame, shame.