Posted on 09/24/2021 7:59:55 AM PDT by patriot torch
The tax bill, according to The Washington Times, contains a provision that would give local newspapers a tax break for each journalist they employ.
The tax break would be in the form of a tax credit equal to up to half of a journalist’s salary for the first year, and 30 percent each subsequent year.
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The idea does not sit well with conservatives and free-market types – and for good reason.
For one thing, as ATR pointed out, newsrooms are havens for “ a largely left-of-center group of workers.” A few years ago, a survey found that only 7 percent of journalists admit to being Republicans.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, told the Times, “Not only is this proposal a grotesque waste of taxpayer money, it would be a dangerous precedent of government collusion with the media. Biden’s collusion with the press has already caused enough damage to freedom of speech and freedom of the press,”
“Freedom of the press does not contemplate government funding of it,” Johnson added.
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Additionally, in order to qualify, the publisher cannot employ more than 750 employees – which would include all but the nation’s largest newspapers.
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Remember, we have to pass the Bill to know the extent of damage to our Republic.
Even if audits prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the election was stolen, the damage is already done and highly unlikely legislation passed fraudulently, would be reversed.
Ditto that. They’ve already got most of the press, now they want to own them.
The nationalizing of the propaganda arm of the government?
Who will play Baghdad Bob?
The tax bill, according to The Washington Times, contains a provision that would give local newspapers a tax break for each journalist they employ.
For almost all of the mainstream media, that would be 0 journalists.
I guess Fox would get a tax break for Doocy.
We’re this not already a banana republic where words don’t mean anything, any law that effectively makes the survival of the press dependent upon the government dime would be thrown out on first amendment grounds.
any law that effectively makes the survival of the press dependent upon the government dime would be thrown out on first amendment grounds.
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Until they succeed in packing the Supreme Court which will happen right before elections so everything is tied up in a court system flipped on its head.
Exactly.
Gosh, I thought successful nations subsidize doctors and engineers, not scribblers.
Silly me.
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