Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
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.
I stand corrected, keith. And, my apology to Toby for being wrong about that aspect of it.
Had I known NPR and PBS were tax funded I would have disdained them even more than I did before knowing. They've had a liberal bias for as long as I can remember, and I have been conspicuous in my absence for all that time.
Great news that it is no longer the case.
I've been scrolling the channels in the past and seen the "fund-a-thons" that Georgia Public Broadcasting uses to supplement the tax dollars and thought that they were fully funded by them. Wonder if they ever mention that whatever you send them in donations goes on top of the taxes you've already been charged. I seriously doubt it. I've got no problem with people giving them their money in donations. . . . . if they want to throw their money down the hole in an outhouse that's their business too.
