They vote, I don't know where you get the idea they don't vote.

If you offer to supplement someone desire to pursue music in lieu of having a "day job" you are going to gain some favor.

The same "giving a helping hand" spin that is always put on social programs. Even if / when these programs prove ineffective or are taken advantage of there is always some impoverished child they can hold up to render opposing arguments inhumane or cruel.

It is no longer the unwilling, it is the unable or (in this case) a suppressed artist that needs to be freed from the oppressions of a working class life in order to blossom the flowers of beauty.

Sure sounds better than "another free lunch"