Npr's Federal Subsidies
UZi
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<div class="IPBDescription">Get off our dime?</div> Does NPR who receives alot of outside funding deserve federal money? It is a non profit organization but recieves alot of money from the government. recently it received a $20 million donation. I believe in the freedom of speech, but some will often say they need to get off federal money and that its unfair for a Radio channel to receive such funding that can be spent elsewere?
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As far as spending government money on it, I'd say it's one of the better investments our government makes. Much better than all of the corporate pork that our distinguished congressmen get for their states.
Programs like 9-11 are more important then NPR.
It's not about whats on it. It's about if a media a (bias) media outlet should receive federal funding.
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No we should just have one source of information, why dont we sell all the internet news sources to ted turner, that way one non-biased corporation can control everything we see and hear.
Ohh and while we're at it, since public schools are also a source of news/information we should cut federal funding to them as well.
Look we balanced the budged and solved our media problem all in one post.
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No we should just have one source of information, why dont we sell all the internet news sources to ted turner, that way one non-biased corporation can control everything we see and hear.
Ohh and while we're at it, since public schools are also a source of news/information we should cut federal funding to them as well.
Look we balanced the budged and solved our media problem all in one post. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Im actually a big perponent for Voucher based schooling
Since our socialized school system is a toliet these days.
Why can a school not accept private donation (some can't). And NPR Not?
Each Tomahawk missle costs $1-2 million, so spending $20 million on NPR seems like a pretty modest investment to me.
Max
$20 million is nothing, its hardly even worth caring about. There are many "black holes" in the Federal budget that we could be more concerned about...
It to has other worthy causes such as history preservation, hunting, self-defense, Cowboy Action shooting, Competitive shooting, Trap & Skeet, NRA-ILA, as well as other worthy causes. I see no problem with them receiveing federal funding. If this is the case.
<a href='http://www.npr.org/about/place/corpsupport/financials.html' target='_blank'>Well, uh.</a>
Do you honestly think this is the only media outlet benefitting from our governments' "largesse"? (and this can come in many forms-- grants are one, but tax breaks, etc--)
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Hate to break it to you, but the NRA <i>does</i> receive federal funding, through the use of military shooting ranges, free ammunition to shooting clubs, and (the last reference I've seen to it was in the early 90s, so this <i>may</i> not still be accurate) but direct funding through the Division of Civilian Marksmanship-- figures I've seen top at at 5 million annually.