i do. I don't appreciate poetry, never have. But others do, it is culture and art, and i have no right to deny this to others as a common good of the human experience
Fair comment. It was a flippant remark. I'm happy for some of my taxes to be spent on subsidising the arts in it's various forms (including forms I don't like). But certainly not to support every aspiring poet/novelist (not that I think anyone is seriously suggesting that).
"i have no right to deny this to others" -
But somehow you do have a right to deny other others usage of their money to this end??