Rally to Stop the Arts Tax

Where: Dilworth Plaza (1400 JFK Boulevard) in Philadelphia, PA

When: Tomorrow! (Friday, Oct 2), 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

What: Rally to oppose "the eleventh-hour proposal to extend the sales tax to arts and culture activities attempts to balance the Commonwealth's budget on the back of one of its most valuable and vulnerable industries."

Fight the Arts Tax

I love PA and I loooooooooove Philly, but eliminating admissions sales tax exemptions from nonprofit cultural institutions? Absolute BS and a true embarrassment. First Philly adopts Michael Vick and now this. Where's the heart in the City of Brotherly Love? This makes me so sad.

For those of you from PA, call your legislators and let 'em have it. Visit the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance for more info. Here's an excerpt from their summary of the situation:

"It seems that Governor Rendell and the General Assembly think they can balance a budget on the backs of our region's arts and culture. For the first time in Pennsylvania, the state sales tax will be applied to tickets for theater, dance and performing arts events, concerts, museums, historical sites, zoos and parks. The word from Harrisburg is that this revenue generated from these taxes could result in long-term funding for our sector. However, sports and movies - which we all know to be big revenue generators - can keep their tax exemptions in Pennsylvania. Why are nonprofit cultural institutions being singled out?"