Last week the Salt Lake Tribune’s Julie Checkoway broke the story about the two presidential candidates platforms regarding the arts. As Checkoway reports, "artists and art-related nonprofits generate about $166.2 billion in revenue per year and $12.6 billion in annual taxes." Obama has for a long time hadhe explains, Obama has long had an arts platform, assembled by a 33-person committee. McCain, on the other hand, has only just released his arts platform, a month before the elections. Read the full article at: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10626969
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