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
relies without warrant on the probability that the economy will improve