The growing use of lottery funding for the arts sector means the least well-off increasingly shoulder the cost of rich people’s pursuits. This is unfair and must be questioned, argues James Doeser.
The UK increasingly funds the arts via its National Lottery. For centuries, lotteries have been a clever trick to get people to pay for things while not being taxed. They help to fund the arts in Finland and South Africa, while the EuroMillions lottery pays for culture across the continent. They are regressive. Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the UK National Lottery has made a lot of poor peop... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper
The UK increasingly funds the arts via its National Lottery. For centuries, lotteries have been a clever trick to get people to pay for things while not being taxed. They help to fund the arts in Finland and South Africa, while the EuroMillions lottery pays for culture across the continent. They are regressive. Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the UK National Lottery has made a lot of poor peop... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper