Rantz: Taxpayers shouldn’t be underwriting NPR — or anyone’s talk show
This is about principles.
Senate Republicans—spurred by former President Trump—advanced a rescissions package aimed at clawing back $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the primary vehicle through which NPR and PBS receive taxpayer dollars. That push is sparking outrage from the usual left-wing voices rattled by the idea that progressive viewpoints shouldn’t be funded by our tax dollars.
Exactly
Consider that it has taken the near overthrow of our Country, to bring most of our elected leaders out of their comas.
I’m quite sure that many remain in their sedate comas, happily drunk on their amazing benefits, such as ‘insider trading.’