"You May Have Hoodwinked Everyone Else In This Backwater Town, but you can't fool me. I listen to Public Radio!"
Posted on 11/19/2016 10:40:17 PM PST by detective
well im sorry to say it but if that is indeed true, putting a hard core right wing Conservative in there would only invite trouble. put someone in that reports the news period. that way NO ONE can say anything about it. just sayin....
PBS makes tons of money from foundations, begathons, and the sale of merchandise. Our tax dollars are a wee spit in the ocean and there are better ways for our tax dollars to be spent!
I have NEVER liked Sesame Street, wouldn't allow my progeny to watch it and my original claims against it, have now all been proved correct. But each to his or her own; not my place to say what you like or don't about a certain show. :-)
Yes, I agree and didn’t mean to say I support doing that at all.
He’s a president, not a dictator.
We won. You lost. Get over it.
-PJ
This is the typical hyprocracy of the libs.
You can ban people from your programs for opinions but defend felons in the real world.
This is why I don’t donate the NPR.
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No Schnit Sherlock.
Those are not so blind as they who will not see.
Did I say ANYTHING about doing it by dictate or decree? NO! Now, use that mellon on your shoulders and consider what I said and how it was meant and you might begin to understand. If you are still stumped, maybe consider the word leadership and how to effectively use it.
I do not need to spell it out as Trump is his own man and he does get it and how to use it. Besides, why should I give the trolls on FR any inkling as to what is coming or that anything at all is?
"You May Have Hoodwinked Everyone Else In This Backwater Town, but you can't fool me. I listen to Public Radio!"
He can do one thing: impound NPR's tax money awarded them by Congress. That is within his power. Will he exercise it? I don't know. The last president to impound money was Nixon.
Like you know what’s coming. LOL!!!
We all won. But it is true, he is a president and not a dictator. You probably don’t even know the comment to which it referred.
actually Trump is leader of the Republican Party and can call the Republican Governors to a private meeting. Those governors own most of the public radio stations and can just cancel NPR from their stations programming.
In my state that would mean kicking them off state university campuses. NPR gets to use space and equipment at taxpayer expense.
WELL! President Trump will defund NPR.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
That is a violation of NPR’s legal charter. They cannot do that.
Defund NPR.
NPR is not government owned, at all. It is a private company that relies on federal tax money for about 5% of its budget. The balance comes from listeners, corporate donations, foundations, etc.
Ever since Reagan, the republicans have tried to take NPR's money out of the budget.
However, the amount is small and the democrats make it a matter of life and death. Then NPR pretends to panic and claim they will go out of business without the money, so its listeners inundate their congressmen and senators to keep the money in the budget and how could you be so mean to NPR.
So, instead of getting rid of the budget item and holding up a $1 trillion dollar bill over a rather paltry amount, Congress just gives up and keeps it in.
The amount is small, but the principle is big. Taxpayers should not have to fund NPR no matter how small the amount. Trump will propose in his next budget to cut out NPR and Congress always puts it back due to public backlash. Trump will have to insist they defund it.
the state owned public radio stations buy npr programs
OK. I give. I googled some more - I can’t link, my apologies and I came across this article from Fox news from 2010 that indicates tax payer funding is more than NPR claims. Using NPR’s websites, they claim little tax payer funds, but as the article indicates, the complexity of the source of all the funds make it difficult to fully determine the amount, in which case, I don’t believe NPR. We should cut off funding, but we have tried now since the early 80s and it never happens. For the republicans, the amount of money is small compared to many other things in the budget, so they don’t want a death match over NPR. They prefer something bigger, which I can understand, but it should would be nice to have a line item veto.
FOX news
As Republican lawmakers lead the charge to cut off public funding to National Public Radio, which has been under fire ever since it sacked Juan Williams last month, the network insists it gets no more than 3 percent of its total budget from taxpayers.
But one analyst has argued that NPR’s $166 million budget is actually made up of more than 25 percent of taxpayer dollars and that its member stations across the country haul in another 40 percent of public funds.
Mark Browning of the American Thinker, a conservative online publication, made his calculations based on publicly available information on NPR’s website.
But an NPR spokeswoman said Browning’s “figures and assumptions are simply inaccurate.”
A report by Congress’ research arm, released late last month, could only identify about 4 percent in public funding to NPR. That’s because NPR’s financial structure is so complex and opaque, an aide to Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., told FoxNews.com.
Lamborn’s legislation to end taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR, which didn’t get far this year, will likely gain more support next year now that Republicans have captured the House.
Browning starts his analysis with NPR’s roughly 900 member stations across the country, which provide 40 percent of the organization’s annual revenues. Browning says that money amounts to 20 percent of taxpayer dollars for the Washington-based NPR.
Revenues for the local NPR affiliates stem from a number of sources, including 5.8 percent from federal, state and local governments, 13.6 percent from universities, and 10.1 percent from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB.
But Browning noted that the federal government provides 99 percent of CPB’s funding and asserted that more than 10 percent of the university funding is fueled by tax dollars based on the assumption that three out of four university-supported stations are publicly funded.
That adds up to 25 percent of taxpayer money for the NPR member stations.
Anna Christopher, a spokeswoman for NPR, told FoxNews.com in an e-mail that to conclude that any more funds in addition to the 10.1 percent from CPB and the 5.8 percent from governments come from taxpayers “is entirely speculative.”
But Browning didn’t stop there. He contends that because donations from individuals, businesses and foundations are tax-deductible, they are subsidized by the government.
Member stations get 32.1 percent from individual contributions, 21.1 percent from business donations and 9.6 percent from foundations.
Browning estimated that the gifts on average result in deductions at the 25 percent tax bracket and argued that 16 percent of the money from those categories, which add up to 64 percent of station funds, is subsidized by the tax code.
“In the end, then, local NPR affiliates derive something like 41 percent of their funding from taxes, either directly or indirectly,” he wrote.
Because half of NPR’s budget is comprised of local station money that is 40 percent derived from taxes, then 20 percent of NPR’s budget comes indirectly from taxpayers, Browning concluded.
Browning also argued that at least 3 percent of the 10 percent funding that comes from grants and contributions category comes from taxes via deductions or taxpayer gifting.
All told, Browning says “it is not unreasonable to assert that more than 25 percent of NPR funds from outside sources actually comes from taxpayers.”
“That’s not an overwhelming portion of the budget, but it’s a long way from 2 to 3 percent,” he wrote.
But Christopher, the NPR spokeswoman, said Browning’s analysis isn’t reasonable.
“Forty percent of NPR’s budget comes from station programming fees,” she said. “As station budgets consist of some federal and state support, and stations in turn pay NPR, you could argue that a small – unquantifiable – percentage of that support filters indirectly to NPR.”
“Quantifying that amount is imperfect, and impossible math,” she said.
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