Congress gets it's powers in Article 1, Section 8. In it Clause 8 states "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;". This clause in no way gave the federal government power to use our tax dollars to fund art, instead it gave the federal government the power to make and control patents and copyrights. Our founding fathers were simply protecting authors, artists and inventors.
Being article 1 section 8 lists the 18 powers given to our federal government, and funding the arts is not one of them, nor have any amendments been made to allow it, I demand that this misuse of my tax dollars be stopped. We need to get spending and the national debt under control.