However, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a government-funded nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, funnels tax dollars to some 700 NPR affiliates nationwide in the form of Community Service Grants (CSGs).
Bingo! The best way to soak the government is to hide the routes that the money takes. Democrats have probably turned this into a science.
And they do provide a public service. They inform us of the thinking and (by checking donor lists) intelligence on our enemies.