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Day 61 For many years the city of Grandview has provided annual funding for the Grandview Symphony

The following appeared in an article in the Grandview Beacon.

“For many years the city of Grandview has provided annual funding for the Grandview Symphony. Last year, however, private contributions to the symphony increased by 200 percent and attendance at the symphony's concerts-in-the-park series doubled. The symphony has also announced an increase in ticket prices for next year. Given such developments, some city commissioners argue that the symphony can now be fully self-supporting, and they recommend that funding for the symphony be eliminated from next year's budget.”

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

五问:

(1)“For many years the city of Grandview has provided annual funding for the Grandview Symphony. Last year, however, private contributions to the symphony increased by 200 percent and attendance at the symphony's concerts-in-the-park series doubled. The symphony has also announced an increase in ticket prices for next year”是事实, “they recommend that funding for the symphony be eliminated from next year's budget”是结论,值得反驳吗?

(2)去年的情况就一定和今年的一致吗?和明年的也一致吗?我们能否简单地进行时间轴论证,认为每一年的情况都趋于一致?或者认为某种趋势将会延续?你能说说哪些因素可能会对这种趋势造成影响吗?例如:人们的音乐喜好变了,或者经济危机使交响乐团的私人赞助减少。另外,在没有基数的前提下,给出百分比 200%和倍数有参考意义吗?如果私人资助只占总资助的很微小的一部分呢?即使翻很多倍也不一定能使交响乐团实现经济独立。

(3)明年提高票价之后还一定会有同样多的观众吗?票价能够决定最终的利润吗?销售量和成本恐怕都会起到较大的作用。你能具体说说其他要素是如何影响最终获利的吗?如果票价提高导致观众减少,乐器的购买和维护费用、人员的工资等成本高于收入的话,利润都会受到影响。

(4)为什么我们不能简单地认为,交响乐团获得利润就意味着一定能够完全自营?因为只有自营的利润或许不足以维持它的高水准,而且政府资助可以提高交响乐团的稳定性和声誉,从而使乐团获得更多的演出机会,完全自营则会失去以上优势。

(5)即便交响乐团有盈利,就意味着要完全取消下一年的预算吗?折中的方案是否更为合适?例如:在私人资助增加和票房收入提高的情况下,政府资助可以适当减少。


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