Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Wendel White 
<wendel@b...> wrote:
> Major motion pictures cost millions (sometimes hundreds of 
millions) but we
> buy a DVD for $20. Picasso's painting are make from materials that 
cost a
> few dollars but we pay millions to buy one. Cost of production and 
value
> have no relationship to one another with regard to creative 
endeavors. This
> is why the IRS no longer allows market value deductions for artists 
that
> donate work to auctions or museums, etc.
> 
> Wendel
> 

Yeah. It's odd that the Govt. allows a tax exempt status to those 
mega-institutions who pay for that art but not to the creators of the 
art.

Reganomocs + Bushinomics = screw the artist, save the institution.