What do to with the NEA? Pull the plug?

Two opinion pieces were published this week giving different conservative takes on what to do with the NEA. I’ll talk about Mark Bauerlein’s New York Times Op-Ed in the next post; here I look at the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne’s briefing paper “End the National Endowment for the Arts”.
To begin I’ll skip all the way to his last paragraph, which begins:There is no robust economic case for direct taxpayer funding of art.And, as I wrote in chapte