The government' s proposed 8 percent cut in all subsidies to arts groups will be difficult for those groups to absorb  As can be seen, however, from their response to last year' s cut, it will not put them out of existence
Last year there was also an 8 percent cut, and though private fund-raising was very difficult for the arts groups in the current recessionary economy, they did survive
overlooks the possibility that the cumulative effect of the cuts will be more than the arts groups can withstand