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In article <3k8ris$s6u@hollywood.cinenet.net>, jet@news.cinenet.net (Jet
Silverman) wrote:

> IMHO, the tax funding should  be cut. We need to cut government spending
>  and this is the easiest place to cut. If people want Public TV, they
> can  pay for it, just like people who want cable pay for it.

We need to cut government spending? Then why not end one of the biggest
government pork barrel spending programs of all time: the home mortgage
deduction? How about all agricultural and corporate subsidies?

The pathetic attempt to balance the budget on the backs of those who do a
good job for a tiny sum is going to destroy the essential rightness of the
endeavor toward fiscal responsibility, as surely as the arrogance of the
democrats destroyed their endeavor toward social responsibility. Targeting
PBS, the NEA and the NEH in the budgetary crosshairs makes fiscal
conservatives look like cowards, frightened to tackle the hard work. Cutting
the measly PBS budget looks like a sop thrown to those who whine
(ludicrously) that the media--particularly PBS--is leftist or, in Newt's own
words, "socialist".   

Public broadcasting is a drop in the fiscal ocean. Its returns greatly
outweigh whatever investment the public makes in it--ever hear of any kid who
learned his letters watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or Home
Improvement? 

PBS is one of the few things that the government did right. Either leave it
alone or *increase* its funding.
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