we choose to fly ourselves because it is fun. The state has no business raising taxes to subsidise the pleasures of a tiny minority.
Propswinger # 27.
Which is precisely why I object to the huge subsidies to "The Arts"
NEVER been to one of those caterwauling contests...sorry, "the Opera"...'cos I don't see the elitist ticket price as being VFM (value for Money)
Likewise "fairies" *jigging about AKA "the Ballet" ....An oblong of stacked housebricks, a dirty bed, a pickled dead animal....I think I've subsidised the lot.
Oh, and the school bus...spent the last 50 years subsidising that, I can count my rail and bus journeys combined , on the fingers of one hand, during the same period. but still I paid the compulsory subsidies.
Like it or not, we all subsidise another minority ,somewhere along the line.
"The Arts" gets up my nose as an Elitist, "luvvies" indulgence...so why shouldn't GA, Yachting, Historic car and Motorcycle-racing etc. be subsidised as well.
* OK, I know it was a cheap jibe and they really fxx-up their bodies and joints in the name of "Art"....so, ask a dinghy sailor about "Enterprise Knee"
