Not excusing the hideous waste of taxpayer dollars at all; but if you are going to fund something like NPR in the DC area, well, $100K employee and you have to share an apartment in Northern Virginia...
So...even more of an argument that this stuff needs to go.
Hey - if the country had no debt and a balanced budget, have at it. But this stuff is a luxury. A luxury we can’t afford.
This is one of the odd things of the way that NPR runs. If they had been located in Charleston, SC or Louisville...the salary structure could have been set at 50-percent of what they pay for DC.
I can remember from the initial first three years of operation....they were mostly a jazz and classical network, with only an hour or two per day of news. I wish that Congress would simply mandate that 50-percent of their day-time operation had to revert back to classical arts/music.
NO, even with no debt and a balanced budget there is no excuse for state-run media and arts.
All can and do thrive just fine without a state agenda, interference, and favorites in the mix.