Originally Posted By: Just Lou
Originally Posted By: Skinny_Vinny


I have nothing against PBS. Just don't think the taxpayer should be spending money on it. Sesame Street is worth hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to PBS exposure. Let them and donors keep it alive somehow. Not taxpayers.


The funding for PBS and NPR is 1/100th of 1% of the federal budget, and costs the average taxpayer about $1.45 a year.


Good. We should use that money to fix a bridge. Feed homeless New Yorkers affected by Sandy. Funding for the VA. We don't need to spend any money on PBS.