The Play's The Thing: Theaters get tax break, but it's never enough

Times Ledger: "The United States is one of the very few Western countries without formal government support of the arts. (We don't have universal health coverage either, but that's another story.) Yes, we do have the National Endowment for the Arts, established in 1965 as an independent fund-granting agency, but despite the great deal of political controversy that it has generated, its budget is miniscule, compared by some as equivalent to five inches worth of a B-1 bomber."