If y'all like it, fine, Toby. It's not for me, however. It is a tax, plain and simple. We fund our public broadcasting by donations, not taxes.
Actually Stan, our tax dollars have been used for decades to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes NPR and PBS. A recent Trump Executive Order put a stop to it.
A couple weeks ago, Trump succeeded in fulfilling another campaign promise, because they had turned into virtual Liberal Left propaganda machines. They also depended upon donations, but the huge loss of taxpayer funding has apparently led to the announcements of closure of them in the near future:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trumpIt's also astonishing to see that many Liberal Left NGO's are shutting down or struggling to survive since Trump put the brakes on USAID spending. It appears that Democrats had been using our tax dollars not only to fund an invasion of Illegal Aliens, but to also fund work against Conservative causes and candidates. Not far from Josef Stalin saying, "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." Democrats have been using our own tax dollars to screw us.
I enjoyed a lot of Public Broadcasting content in the past, but their Liberal Left Democrat bias had become undeniable and impossible to stomach in the last decade or so. I am not sorry to see them go, and we have more than enough Liberal Left biased News organizations that we don't need to have our taxes funding another. Of course, Democrats are livid about this.
By the way, from what I've seen from the BBC, I wouldn't exactly classify them as an unbiased or Conservative News source these days, and wouldn't expect them to oppose the UK Lead Ammo Ban either. I couldn't imagine paying any fee or tax to bring them into my home. Here is just one of their anti-lead ammo reports:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34861602Trump Promises made... Trump promises kept! This is what I voted for.
