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income earned in ireland

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Dinah Snipes Steveni on thu 6 may 10


There is no tax on income earned by visual artists, writers, sculptors, mu=
sicians at the present who satisfy requirements posited by Irish Government=
. May change though. Shall we start a campaign state by state?

Dinah

gary navarre on fri 7 may 10


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r me even though vary little of my income has, and in all likely-hood never=
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will, come from the sale of my Art. I wonder why Ireland doesn't tax it's =
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artists. Is it that they don't make much money anyway and there is no Irish=
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National Endowment For The Arts so might as well let them keep what they m=
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ake? Maybe the thought is if they are not taxed then the government doesn't=
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need to support them with tax money collected from non-artists. The situat=
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ion in America being different maybe we should tax Artists more and fund ou=
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r National Endowment for the Arts with their own money and not those who ha=
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ve no interest in the Arts. I bet we would get a lot more useful Art and a =
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lot less jars of pee with crosses in them, rags hanging from light poles, o=
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r strobe lights flashing on the severed necks of a chickens. Because of "ar=
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t" like that there's a lot of people out there who believe you don't gotta =
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have Art
and the market place should be the determining factor in it's survival. Wh=
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enever I made something useful it sold but my "art" pieces tended to sit, p=
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robably because some folks see the title of my Dragon Pots as a name for Sa=
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tin or something stupid like that. It's a sad day when superstition dictate=
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s what can be represented with imagery so stay in there and don't let Rush =
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or the Taliban fool ya eh!=3D0A=3D0AGary Navarre=3D0ANavarre Pottery=3D0ANa=
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terprises=3D0ANorway, Michigan, USA=3D0Ahttp://www.youtube.com/GindaUP=3D0A=
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