@article{Asher_2019, place={Campinas, SP}, title={Retreat from the global}, volume={5}, url={https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/figura/article/view/9993}, DOI={10.20396/figura.v5i1.9993}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 221.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00733);">On May 22, 2017, Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 246.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01955);">coming fiscal year, one that would entirely eliminate funding for the National </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 272.54px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.965496);">Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment fo</span><span style="left: 504.637px; top: 272.54px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.965153);">r the Humanities, and </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 297.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.999861);">the Public Broadcasting Service.</span><span style="left: 353.602px; top: 297.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01192);">Right</span><span style="left: 396.17683333333326px; top: 297.7396484374999px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 402.273px; top: 297.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.989792);">wing media such as the </span><span style="left: 616.786px; top: 297.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02011);">National </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 322.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01826);">Review</span><span style="left: 138.182px; top: 322.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.967356);">gave the prop</span><span style="left: 254.471px; top: 322.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.970442);">osal full support, arguing that</span><span style="left: 505.55249999999995px; top: 322.93964843749984px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">“</span><span style="left: 511.658px; top: 322.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.969195);">The Left should stop </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 348.54px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.98042);">whining about the NEA and NEH and, instead, do something productive: </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.03302);">They should fight fo</span><span style="left: 233.10216666666665px; top: 373.7396484374999px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">r</span><span style="left: 245.156px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.0333);">President Trump’s tax</span><span style="left: 425.0528333333333px; top: 373.7396484374999px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 431.149px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02932);">cut plan</span><span style="left: 496.10833333333335px; top: 373.7396484374999px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">”</span><span style="left: 502.214px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.0188);">. </span><span style="left: 513.257px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.01872);">The </span><span style="left: 550.725px; top: 373.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02467);">National Review</span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 398.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.971428);">even had the audacity to note how beneficial a tax cut would be for the </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 424.14px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.974308);">wealthy: “Hollywood and Broadway artists and executives would see their </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 449.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.977273);">top rate sliced from 39.5 percent to 35 percent. Major me</span><span style="left: 562.767px; top: 449.74px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.00255);">dia companies </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 474.94px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.976777);">such as Time Warner and NBCUniversal would see their corporate taxes </span><span style="left: 70.8px; top: 500.14px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.981435);">drop from 35 percent to</span><span style="left: 282.537px; top: 500.14px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.989501);">20 or, even better, 15 percent</span><span style="left: 539.0243333333333px; top: 500.1396484374999px; font-size: 17.999999999999996px; font-family: sans-serif;">”</span><span style="left: 545.129px; top: 500.14px; font-size: 18px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.0188);">. </span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition}, author={Asher, Frederick}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={3–5} }