Why do my taxpayer dollars go to this trash?

Why do my taxpayer dollars go to this trash?

Privatize it


If I want unbiased educational videos I have youtube

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usatoday.com/videos/news/2017/03/17/fox-news-poll-bernie-sanders-most-popular-politician-america/99323334/
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There is a public benefit for curated, high quality educational content broadcast nationally for free.

>its a public benefit XD

Helicopter cash would be a public benefit too

>implying you have a job

Who cares. As long as they keep making Antiques Roadshow they can keep getting money

I'm more concerned that my tax dollars allow you to be a NEET parasite instead of being forced to starve in the gutter.

taxation is theft, doesn't matter where the stolen goods go

The corporation for public broadcasting gets a little more than .01% of the annual budget. There are much bigger fish to fry if you want to cut government expenditure

>Fortunately for Trump, most voters have no real idea how the government spends its money, and plenty of his supporters believe that you can balance the budget by just hiring fewer people, making government more efficient, and getting rid of the odd department. In a 2013 survey of Fox News viewers, forty-nine per cent said that “cutting waste and fraud” would eliminate most of the national debt. Polls of the general population have found that people believe that more than twenty-five per cent of the federal budget goes to foreign aid (it’s less than one per cent); that ten per cent goes to pensions and benefits (today, it’s 3.2 per cent); and that five per cent goes to PBS and NPR (it’s 0.01 per cent). The median guess about how much food and housing assistance cost was three to four times as much as the true figure.
[...]
>It’s not hard to see how these misconceptions arose. For decades, the G.O.P. and right-wing media have been saying that the government is riddled with fraud and wastes money on handouts. So, although moves like a hiring freeze or axing the N.E.A. and legal aid would have no real impact on the deficit, Trump’s supporters don’t see these moves as trivial—let alone as window dressing designed to distract them from other, less populist measures, like a tax plan that would benefit mainly the rich. “When Trump voters hear that he wants to cut the federal payroll and shut down the N.E.A., a bell goes off that says he’s a deficit hawk, even if his tax plan will supersize the debt,” Hochschild said. A few distracting gestures may enable Trump to reassure people that he’s keeping his campaign promises, even if his budget never comes close to being balanced. How is he going to solve his budget dilemma? By pretending that he has.

newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/trumps-budget-bluff

>for free

Except for the part where I am forced to pay for it involuntarily via taxation

Thats the exact opposite of free

>being an idiot

>forced to pay for it involuntarily via taxation
You dont make enough money to pay taxes user. Odds are someone probably claims you as a dependent.

tl,dr

>posting new yorker articles, fake news
He has already decreased the deficit by 100 billion; that doesn't fit narrative, eh?

IDK, user. Would you care to ask this dude ???

most of their money comes from Jew York billionaires anyway

no point to spend public money on it

all public broadcasters are garbage propaganda too

>it benefits the rich to noy have the public steal all their money
>if you make a lot, the public is entitled to however much it wants
kys

Please Gary, tell me how a society functions without taxes? I'm sure you have an alternative suggestion, right you dumb faggot?

I'd love for you to tell me how roads get paid for if nobody pays for it.

>PBS
>unbiased

lots of rural kids use it for education.
but in the end you don't care for anyone but yourself

>trying to take away PBS from lower middle class families who look forward to their educational programming every day
I just don't get why you want to punish the poor on an emotional level now. Christ, do Republicans care about their own voters at all?

I hope this is bait, because otherwise you might actually be mentally retarded.

>rural kids
You mean middle aged nu-males like yourself?

I'm ok with JewBS being cut, they don't even get 10% of their budget from the feds anyway

I would like to see the Defense budget trimmed, and (((veteran))) benefits, talk about fraud and waste.

>I fixed airconditioners in Afganistan for six months,, hurr durr I'm a warrior hurr durr give me 100% disability hurr durr

Talk about welfare queens

>I'm backwards and don't agree with things that are facts so it is unbiased to me

>they don't even get 10% of their budget from the feds anyway
Then it makes no sense to cut it, you joyless fuck.

Go away, commie. Really, move to some glorious workers' paradise like NK.

>We're only wasting a little bit of money

Not an argument.

*biased

it's mostly donations so if you cut it, people will just donate more if they really think it's worth it

>govt subsidizing rich donors

You only care about indoctrinating kids with your marxism.

Nah I'll do everything in my power to push America towards socialism and big gubberment and there's nothing you can do about it.

There's more of us than you

>lots of rural kids use it for education.
That's good, because it's not like we're already paying for them to go to school for eight fucking hours a day.

i agree with you pepes on this, could do more good here than fighting farmers half way across the world for god knows what

Long live international Marxism

>if you make funding worse, that somehow through meme magic, makes it easier to fund
Go kill yourself Trumpfag

Not at all. You've been completely blown out in every election for years; you're not even a national party anymore. You're pathetic, dude, and you're party will stay powerless and disgraced until you become less deranged.

Damn. *your

marxism is fucking awesome

eat the rich
hang the alt right

So you went to private schol for your entire "education"?

America will always have a large big gubberment public sector. FDR's legacy is permanent. Trump won't do shit about it.

Big government and socialism will never go away, only increase.

Can't wait for the inevitable civil war. It'll be great to see you starve in the millions, tbqh.

>somehow through meme magic

no, through rich donors who choose how to donate their money retard

that's assuming the current level of funding is even necessary, which it isn't. There's so much free content out there these days no one gives a shit about PBS

>If I want unbiased educational videos I have youtube
t. average drumpf voter

theres a lot of things you can call me but dont call me a fucking liberal
liberals are scum. As a marxist, I at least have a small respect for you right wingers, because you clearly know your policies are evil and harm others. Liberals pretend they're helping everyone when they really are doing jack shit

Historical predestination is a stupid fallacy, and you're an idiot. Also, the 70s and 80s saw sharp reductions in the size of the US government.

You sound so out of touch with reality that it hurts. I can't imagine being this far into Right-wing kool aid where you think things would be hunky dory if you pulled out what little funding PBS has and live in this delusion that you can survive just on "muh donors". You just don't know how any of this shit works outside of memes.

>there is so much crazy independent youtube "documentaries" out there that I don't need reliable or consistent public access
Tell me about the Greatest Story Never Told, MENSA member.

>conservatives give standing ovation to Bernie Sanders
>in deep south
>hate liberals though
It's like they just don't know what words mean anymore, gee.

Oops.

>He has already decreased the deficit by 100 billion; that doesn't fit narrative, eh?
Are we just making things up out of thin air now?

Also even if that happened, I think you were confused. You spelled Obama wrong.

That is obviously fake news, user. Don't you understand that we have to judge Trump by a different standard! So when he golfs more, it's not worth mentioning that he's golfed more than Obama did in 8 entire years...that just wouldn't be fair. Nahhh! Trump needs that time to think about how he's making America great. Stop being a meanie!

CYBER CHASE NIGGAS

WHO TF UP??

1. Trump has the hardest job in the world

2. Trump isn't golfing when he golfs, he's meeting with foreign dignitaries and conducting important business

3. Trump and his family's security wouldn't cost so much if the MSM hadn't demonized him and his family

4. The White House is most likely wiretapped and Mar-A-Lago is a place where he can work in peace and privacy

And the last 20 years have seen huge increases.

Face it retard. No one likes the free market. Not even rich people.

Is...is this all a joke? Please tell me you are baiting. Right?

>PBS
>trash
t. basic cable douche

PBS News Hour is left-leaning shit, but a lot of PBS is quality, exponentially better than anything on a similar-themed cable network. Nightly Business Report is top-tier, Create has all the best cooking and travel shows, MHZ Worldview has top-tier shows and news, and one of the local PBS stations is the only place you actually see "alt-right" and conservative think-tanks like The Independence Institute with their own fucking TV shows.

Yeah, I understand the "taxation is theft narrative", but the CPB is by far the least of everyone's concerns about being a money pit. Also most of you are probably too young to remember the Bell System, not that it was perfect by any means, but when the government and anti-trust asshats were all bitching to break that up, the did, and then around the same time was when cable companies started getting exclusive franchise rights in most regional markets. Now we have the garbage mass media and infrastructure system because the last 20 years all those cable and ex-Bell system companies keep combining and forming their own regional monopolies. So now a lot of places in America have shittier, more expensive internet than former Soviet Bloc countries, and all you good cable-raised slave kids are bitching about the one perpetual beacon of light and hope in American mass media?

>Trump isn't golfing when he golfs
you were so close to getting me, but you got cocky

>1. Trump has the hardest job in the world
Awwwwww poor baby! Running a country is hard? Dawwwwwww! Who would have thought?
>2. Trump isn't golfing when he golfs, he's meeting with foreign dignitaries and conducting important business
He met with a foreign dignitary once on a golf course, said the man who "won't waste American taxpayers time and money by golfing".
>3. Trump and his family's security wouldn't cost so much if the MSM hadn't demonized him and his family
This makes absolutely no fucking sense. Nobody is forcing Melania to live in NYC. But then again, Trump goes back and forth too. I guess that is okay too for you double standard retards.
>4. The White House is most likely wiretapped
Kek, nice meme backed by no evidence.
>and Mar-A-Lago is a place where he can work in peace and privacy
Ah yes, what a people's President, needs to work at a 5 star hotel and golf resort. Sounds like he's really clocking in those 9 to 5 hours. Phew, sure must be hard.

What's it like sucking the cock of the most unpopular President in modern US history?

>left leaning shit
Enlighten me, what is example of right leaning facts or information you would want on PBS? An hour long Christian church service intercut with commercials about how great it is to electroshock trannies? Then a finale of Sam Hyde standup?

How cute

kek. Wanna know how I can tell you didn't actually read the post you're complaining about?

I did. But every kid on here complains this is left leaning shit, that is left leaning shit, blah blah blah.

PBS has the most eloquent newscasters in the media along with CBS.

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REEEEEEEEEE FAKE NEWS GO BACK TO BUZZFEED REEEEEEEEEE

ONLY INFOWARS AND RT IS REAL NEWS

SO WHAT IF RT IS CONTROLLED BY A GOVERNMENT RAN BY A FORMER SECRET POLICE OFFICIAL IT'S REEEEEEEAAALLLLL

Sure, they did. Those were not your fellow hard-leftists. Not at all.
>being a clueless libtard

>What? Trump said he doesn't like thing? Well now I'm an expert on thing and how it works and hate it too!
God, Trumpanzees are insufferable

>didn't arrest hillary
>bombed Syria
>filled cabinet with billionaires and lobbyists
>didn't repeal Obamacare
>walked back naming China a currency manipulator
>suddenly thinks dollar is "too strong"
>more golf trips per time in office than Obama
>more executive orders per time in office than Obama
>rampant nepotism
>not even in office 100 days

We tried to warn you.

>if I photoshop words on top of an unappealing stock photo it means what I say is true!

Did you take this from The Comical Conservative?

The Sup Forumstards want the blatant nepotism. They're trying to pan out who'd be closer to the presidency after Donald. Their line of thinking doesn't even make sense. Nepotism amongst Jews is EVUL but the Trumps are in fact mostly Jews

>Sure, they did.
Yeah...they did. Most Trumpfags are fed lies by Republicans despite many of them being Bernie fans. It's quite baffling. Almost as if they vote against their own interests, gee wizz!
>Those were not your fellow hard-leftists. Not at all.
Nice no true Scotsman, but I never said they were. If anything, they just agree with liberal policies more and just don't know what liberal means.
>being a clueless libtard about the deficit
I'll wait on some evidence you gullible retard. Who told you that? Steve Bannon?

BUT HER EMAILS REEEEE

I rate RT just as well. Every nationalist broadcast network has a right to exist.

Wait, Sup Forums's logic doesn't make sense? Color me surprised.

>libtard

Oh, you don't want to be taken seriously? Why didn't you just say so?

>Why do my taxpayer dollars go to this trash?

Churning out propaganda with some educational content on the side is expensive, OP.

Just look at the BBC.

>"propaganda" has just become a useless alt-right buzzword that means anything I don't like

>newyorker.com/

It's basically privatized by this point. It's the same as "public" universities.

>DUDE THE MEDIA ISN'T BIASED AND NEVER HAS BEEN SHUT UP

t. leftist cuck incapable of actual independent thought.

Learn to use commas correctly, retard. Regarding the deficit reduction, it was widely reported on a while ago. I guess you were too busy circlejerking on r/politics about the "fascist" drumpf, huh? And those people you keep talking about were leftists. I mean, you rabid cunts have a presence in every state. Despite what you heard on Reddit, a majority favors tax cuts and likes the government to be trimmed down. Bernie couldn't even beat Hillary, he was soundly defeated. He would have been crushed against Trump.

>getting triggered over "libtard"

This is hilarious, considering the best you cucks can come up with is "Drumpf".

>triggered
In the real world, you're not well-liked, and it's very common for people to talk about you in this way.

How is it to have IQ that's below 80? Or are you just very dishonest?

(((pbs)))

>In the real world
You're arguing about meme politics on the television and film board of Sup Forums. Don't pretend you have anything to do with "the real world" you meme spouting fuck.

That goes for the rest of you bait gobbling homos as well.

Still waiting on a source my delusional friend.
>the Republicans who gave him a standing ovation were secretly liberals
Kek, the lengths you faggots go to avoid admitting how unpopular you are even within your own party are amazing. It's almost endearing. Just the other day, you barely held onto a Red state.
>Berne is considered one of the most popular politicians
>Would have been "le crushed" by an opponent who didn't even win a popular vote
KEKKKKKK

It really is like you kids live in a fantasy world. Even Fox admits he's more popular.
usatoday.com/videos/news/2017/03/17/fox-news-poll-bernie-sanders-most-popular-politician-america/99323334/

How does it feel to not have an argument?

>high quality educational content
The niggers won't even play Mr Rogers reruns because he talks about how God loves everyone. Literally no good learning shows for children anymore. The internet has "high quality educational content" as well.

>a majority favors tax cuts and likes the government to be trimmed down.
Yeah, those are liberals.
>muh 58 gorbillion extra dollars to military spending
>""""trimmed""""

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They still have Wishbone, right? That's classical literature kino right there.

PBS is already mostly funded through private channels. The percentage of your tax dollar that actually goes towards PBS is so insignificant in comparison to military spending it's insane.

Where'd you go? Aren't you gonna "btfo" this dum dum "libtard"? Still waiting on that link that shows me all the gorbillions Trump saved by the grace of meme magic.

>no Mr Rogers
>no wishbone
>no cyber chase
>only modern Arthur
>no between the lions
>no reading rainbow
>no red green show
And people actually care if PBS is still around

>and it's very common for people to talk about you in this way

BUT MUH SOCIALISM REEEEE!

Great argument, bud.
>says think for yourself
>parrots Sup Forums

So you're suggesting internet be free? Communist.