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Quotes from On tax-funded art: National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley — Antonin Scalia

1936–2016 United States

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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois [shock the middle classes]; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at the suppression of dangerous ideas.'

On tax-funded art: National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998)

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