To the editors:
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I have a tax number and I collect your money for you at art fairs all over the state. I step right up and pay on time, every time. I pay state taxes every day of my life. I don’t pay to provide salaries for politicians who want to use the American flag to bamboozle their constituents into thinking they’re great guys.
Scott Tyler desecrated the symbol of The United States. State senators who cut funding to the arts in retribution desecrate the reality.
I shall not allow the petty bourgeois barbarians in Springfield to deprive you of my tax dollars. I have no way of knowing what they would have sent to you out of my meager income for the year but it is my intention to send a check to The Art Institute to more than make up for my part. Having contributed in the past, I know that I shall receive a thank you and a receipt. These shall be sent along with a copy of this letter to my representatives in The State Legislature. This action may be merely symbolic but then, that’s what this whole thing has been about.
