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* Re “Taxing Creativity Is a Mistake,” Aug. 24.
As the owner of a small business in the city of Los Angeles who pays license fees and taxes at the federal, state and local levels, I am furious at the selfish whining of the “creative community,” who feel they are above the requirements necessary to make the city infrastructure function.
No, you are not better than me, and no, I don’t owe you a living (including paying your taxes) because you are an “artist.”
Who are you anyway, to decide what is creative or not?
Starting any small business is most certainly a creative process.
One must have the vision to recognize a need, gather the necessary money, equipment and personnel to fill this need, design a future for the company and devise answers to its problems at any given moment.
I am just as likely to run afoul of the graft and politics in this city and be shut down as any “artistic endeavor.”
To arrogantly separate creativity into varying categories of work shows the ignorance of the writer on many levels.
All the small businesses I know of are exceptionally creative--we have to be or we’ll be out of business.
MARY TANNHEIMER
Tarzana
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