"The National Endowment for the Arts gave between $100,000 and $249,000 to help underwrite the festival, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) gave between $50,000 and $99,999."
So... it's not our "tax dollars", it's more like our "tax one-hundredth-of-a-penny".
It's the principle that irritates me far more than the relatively niggling amount. But FYI the total federal spending to support the "arts" is over $1,000,000,000 per year. What business does the government have subsidizing "artists" whose "art" is so worthless and/or repugnant that they can't sell it?