NPR you suck

[Riot]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Senator Jim DeMint promises to introduce legislation to bar public funding of NPR. So, at least the taxpayer-fueled subsidizing of this left wing madness will cease.

Doubtful that will happen. NPR is the third-largest radio station in the country, and has been supported over the past 30-40 years by far more people than currently want to politically grandstand about removing it's funding because an employee didn't adhere to his employment contract and was fired.

I would think the Libertarians would be all over NPR in support.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

I would think the Libertarians would be all over NPR in support.

I would think Libertarians would demand the Government stop funding NPR all together or are the propaganda spewing radio stations different and more worthy than say the funding of education or social security?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

I would think Libertarians would demand the Government stop funding NPR all together or are the propaganda spewing radio stations different and more worthy than say the funding of education or social security?

The government funds less than 2% of NPR's budget. I would think Libertarians would stand up for the right of a corporation to determine it's own employees without government interference.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

The government funds less than 2% of NPR's budget. .

That would be nice but in the real world

Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from local funding and 10% of their revenue from the federal funding in the form of CPB grants

If they were not funded on the taxpayer dime of course Libertarians would say it's a private corporation free to do as it will but NPR isn't private. Suppose government funding both local and federal went to FOX in an equal amount?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

That would be nice but in the real world

Typically, NPR member stations raise funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, and grants from state governments, universities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from local funding and 10% of their revenue from the federal funding in the form of CPB grants

If they were not funded on the taxpayer dime of course Libertarians would say it's a private corporation free to do as it will but NPR isn't private. Suppose government funding both local and federal went to FOX in an equal amount?

We are not talking about local member stations. We are talking about the parent corp, the original government money going to Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Government funding is less than 2% of their revenue.

If you want to cut funding to NPR, I suggest you call the private corporations that support it, such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Midland, and complain.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

If you want to cut funding to NPR, I suggest you call the private corporations that support it, such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Midland, and complain.

I could care less what private corps/charites fund NPR, I can choose to not buy their stock in the case of corps

I just don't want tax payer dollars going there as there's no way to opt out

You know the Libertarian Way!

[Riot]

NPR was started by Nixon, seriously funded by Reagan and Bush The First (that's why I laugh when some refuse to believe I'm a pretty typical moderate R - for 40 years most R's had a strong social conscience).

Now they get about 460 million a year. Sure, take that drop in the bucket away if you can meet the test, below (the GOP has variously tried to defund NPR throughout the years, to no avail).

BTW, do you also want to defund the National Endowment for the Arts?

Before anybody defunds anything, though, I do challenge you to find any demonstrably measurable bias whatsoever, right or left, about NPR. The transcripts are there. Plenty have looked in the past, during past attempts to defund.

You complain there is no "opt out" clause for how your tax money is spent. I say too bad. You are an American citizen. You elect representatives to go to Washington and spend your tax money. Individuals are not entitled to an individual "opt out" clause if they want to be an American and live by our Constitution and laws.

Feel free to buy some land outside American, and start Libertarian World, however (a la Atlas Shrugged)