The Funding Conundrum: A Marketer's Response
Nothing can take the wind out of your sails and make one reassess current strategies quite like an unexpected and critical loss of funding, which is what happened to 24 major arts organizations in our nation's capital two weeks ago. Shortly after the federal government averted a shut down, it was revealed that a part of the budget compromise was 74% reduction in the allocation to the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program . Many do not realize that the District of Columbia is a federal territory under the complete authority of Congress , and as it is not a state, it does not receive voting representation in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. However, DC residents pay some of the highest federal taxes in the nation and their city's budget is established by Congress, leading to a cry of " taxation without representation ." At a moment when Congressional representatives were trying to make substantial cuts to the nation's budget without af