Privatize the NEA? I am laughing out-fucking-loud. Of all the dumb things you have said on this board, that one is up there.
It's clear you don't know what the NEA actually does.
though oft attributed to Churchill - the quote in reply to funding the war effort and cutting all funding for the arts - "then what are we fighting for" is a valuable sentiment no matter who said it.
Expression in a democratic society is part of the very foundation of who we are - the right to express. Harry Lime character had a point though about conflict being fecund oxygen for creativity. However, cutting programs like the NEA only supports closed mindedness and antipathy.
Even the monarchs of old supplemented the arts -
Your argument is lackluster.