I want you to do my taxes Mark. And don't forget about that extra
zero in the refund right?
Mairead
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:18:08 -0500, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Less beside the point in the US, where most of those things don't come out
> of taxes and there's a great dea of public misery. And where it's a bit
> more than all federal spending on all the arts.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 05:14 PM 2/14/2005, cris cheek wrote:
> >Mark, why is it an appalling amount of money? Let's get our sleeves
> >rolled up and really get into the *cost per poet . . . as if a poet is
> >somehow separable from the costs of sustaining a broader social fabric
> >(welfare . . health . . . education . . . pensions . . . surely that
> >accounting (which could be applied to sciences and engineers and so
> >forth) is completely besides the point?
>
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