I’m a freelance artist and did not get awarded any Covid business fund relief other than UI which like helpful of course ! But reading this shit made my blood boil . I also had a friend who worked w small venues here in sf to keep them going and she/ they got denied too. Fuck this shit !!!!
Trump gave away the goddamn store with PPP. He gave people a license to steal. And the sad thing is, the people who ripped off the program the worst voted for him again out of sheer entitlement. It is the fuck-you-pay-me theory of government.
As a touring professional, I can say without a doubt that none of my artists got any sort of grant like this. We just got much higher costs of touring.
My old org received this grant in 2021 and it helped keep us afloat and pay my friends' salaries. We weren't eligible for the second round of funding because we didn't meet the threshold of revenue loss from 2020/21 compared to the previous three years. We could have used the addition $$ for staff.
I remember reading that one of the biggest beneficieries of pandemic subsisdies in France were Louis Viutton. The whole system is lopsided bc the already rich and powerful have more resources to know how to benefit from arrangements like these
They have a team of lawyers on retainer whose only job is to do stuff like this. Even a medium sized business can't compete with that. There should have been a cap on business size, holding companies, all sorts of other regulations and mandatory audits. That would have stopped a lot of this.
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