[Dixielandjazz] [Fwd: Crumbs From The NPR Table]

[Bill Biffle]

Can we please keep this list on point?

BB


-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill Horton
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:53 PM
To: Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] [Fwd: Crumbs From The NPR Table]

Mike Logsdon writes (or quotes?), re NPR:

  There is a diversity of opinions, a diversity of
> talents and interests, and several million paying customers to entertain
> (yes, that's what I said, entertain) in the listenership of National
> Public Radio.

The beefs about NPR are mainly two:
(1)  It has a definite leftward political slant; and
(2)  With thousands of self-supporting radio stations in this country, why
should taxpayers pay for NPR?

Nothing in the Constitution authorizes such expenditure (unless some Justice
"finds", hiding in a penumbra, some authority for it, as 5 did with "the
right to privacy.")  There's no problem with listeners sending in
contributions to support NPR, but taking tax money from multi-millions who
never listen seems sort of like stealing their money, doesn't it?

Bill Horton



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