You are more on the money than you think. You see, that is why you and I cannot be entrusted with a tax refund. We wouldn't spend it "correctly." It is better that people superior to us, people such as Lear and the Clintons, say where your money should go.
My niece's "Where's Waldo" stated that it took a whole tree just to make 40 newspapers...leaving out the size of both the required trees and newspapers in typical leftist fashion. Still, a Rush-sized newspaper "audience" (20 million) would require the daily destruction of 500,000 trees.
Try doing a Google search on how many trees are destroyed for the daily NY Times, or investigate how much energy's necessary to keep the entertainment-news business running. Those busybodies lecture the rest of us peons, but never hold themselves accountable. Pompous scribes and entertainers, lecture thyselves.