Posted on 09/15/2021 4:50:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
House Democrats are offering more than $1 billion in subsidies to local newspapers as part of a massive spending proposal released this week, even as polls show record levels of distrust in the media.
The $3.5 trillion spending plan includes up to $25,000 in payroll tax credits for each journalist on a local newspaper’s payroll. The carve-out will cost $1.3 billion over the next decade, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. To offset this and other tax credits included in the bill, Democrats are proposing $2.9 trillion in tax hikes through higher corporate, capital gains, and personal income tax rates.
Democrats hope the proposal will rescue local newspapers, which saw employment fall by 57 percent from 2008 to 2020. More than 1,800 newspapers have shut down since 2004 amid a shift away from print advertising and the rise of online media. Confidence in the media has also waned. Just 21 percent of Americans said they had “great confidence” in newspapers, according to a recent Gallup survey. Only television news, big business, and Congress had lower confidence ratings. […]
Americans for Tax Reform listed the tax credit as one of 10 “giveaways” that Democrats are offering to liberal interest groups in the spending plan. The group, which supports low taxes, noted that journalists tend to be liberal.
The spending bill also proposes subsidies for the solar industry to “promote environmental justice” and a tax deduction of up to $250 for dues paid to labor unions. …
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
#ing Rats
Welfare for the government-supporting propaganda industry...
“The Federal Rag”
as the nationalization of key businesses marches on.
Trying to prop up the failing Ministry of Propaganda outlets.
They see how easily True-dope was able to grease the Canadian MSM with $600 million CDN, so they figure they can do it in Amerikka.
That’s a payout to Gannett newspapers which owns most of the newspapers in the US - including USA Today and all of whom are DNC propaganda yellow journalists.
Propping up small town newspapers, which are actually few media conglomerates that primarily run the same stories in every newspaper...
This is for the sole purpose of “introducing” the 2024 Democrat Presidential candidate. That’s how BO got his start. There were weekly public interest stories about him and Michelle , then the op-eds weighed in.
You know how this sad story ends.
One positive. How many Americans are literate?
No, that’s for straight men.
On the other hand, is it even possible that they could be more pro-Dem / pro-Commie than they already are today?
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors |
Benjamin Franklin, July 9, 1722 in the New England Courant. He was writing under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood." Franklin was just sixteen when he expressed that!
Stat controlled media. Isn’t that unconstitutional?
Why bother? No one reads them anymore.
It’s probably more democrat money laundering.
How much for buggy whip factories?
I thought according to the Constitution that the press is off limits to the government; if the government gives it money then the government can dictate news.
In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law:That’s how people like the late RBG would want the First Amendment rewritten. See how they are no longer natural rights.These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
- freedom of speech;
- freedom of the press;
- freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
- freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
I didn't fix it, but both questions are worth an answer.
The thing is: If it’s not in the Constitution you can do it. The Constitution doesn’t prevent, it allows - limits what the government can/can’t do, not the citizens.
Print news is one of the largest sources of waste paper in America. Surprised the tree hugger Democrats aren’t celebrating the demise of the industry.
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