Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“For decades, taxpayers have been forced to fund PBS and NPR, and with them any political tilts that we disagree with. For decades, some lawmakers have nominally agreed that taxpayers should be liberated from this unchosen obligation. But nothing has changed. Now, however, President Trump has issued an executive order to simply end ‘Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.’ … I say we have a right that our tax dollars not be used at all to fund public broadcasting. And that, also contrary to the text of the order, the government is not ‘entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.’ It should have no authority to pay for any activities unrelated to the proper functions of government. I will, however, accept the result of the executive order, defunding of public broadcasting. If we do get this result.” (05/08/25)