Comment on The Quilt Museum Funding by Linda in NE

You won’t lose me as a reader, You are entitled to your opinion. I both agree and disagree with you.
You’re right in not wanting your taxes to pay for what seems like unnecessary spending, but let’s face it, the tax funding the quilt museum gets is such small potatoes compared to so much other spending. Bridges to nowhere, unneeded canals, perfectly healthy people on disability for life, Medicare fraud, Medicaid abuse, families on welfare for generations, uncontrolled military spending, etc. etc. Funding museums and libraries is not what got our country into the mess it’s in, and taking funding from them isn’t going to fix the problem.
As a Nebraska quilter I know that the Nebraska State Quilt Guild contributed a LOT of money to the building of the museum and volunteers have put in a lot of hours there. There have been many private cash donations & wonderful quilt collections donated….worth many thousands of dollars.
And just so quilters don’t feel picked on, that Tennessee newspaper did a similar article about the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. about a year ago. I really wonder if the author of either article visited either the Quilt Study Center Museum or the Corn Palace and did he/she actually interview people at either place to get a full picture of the funding?