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Opinions/Editorials Title: End Federal Tax Subsidies to Fox! In response to Jim DeMint, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, and other wingnuts who are calling for an end of Federal government support for National Public Radio because it fired commentator Juan Williams for hate speech against Muslim-Americans, I am calling for the Federal government to close all those loopholes whereby Rupert Murdoch essentially usurps our taxpayer money and uses it to finance his massive airwave pollution projects. That’s right, the US government is essentially underwriting Fox Cable News by allowing the Austrialian-American billionaire to evade the taxes that his secretaries and janitors have to pay. Murdoch’s evasion of taxes may not be illegal, but it is immoral and unethical for someone who owns the Wall Street Journal and a whole cable news company, who is therefore part of the moral community of the United States, to avoid paying his fair share (in contrast, e.g., to the Disney Corp., which owns ABC). Murdoch’s tactics for stiffing the public and contributing to the national debt were uncovered in the 1990s. It was discovered that his news corporations worldwide were paying 6% in taxes! In contrast, Disney was paying 31%. Almost anyone reading this pays very substantially more in taxes than Mr. Rupert, and when he doesn’t pay for government services, it comes out of your pocket. Murdoch has backed Glenn Beck, who called President Barack Obama a racist, and Sean Hannity, who has openly falsified an Obama speech by manipulating the video to make him seem to say the opposite of what he said. He is not only not delivering news under the guise of ‘Fox Cable News’, he is delivering intentional falsehood. In addition, Murdoch is a bad corporate citizen, contriving to be a free rider who will not pay his fair share of taxes. No wonder we have a big deficit!
As for the numbnuts who think that NPR can be cut off from federal grants, in fact National Public Radio, despite the name, is not funded by the federal government. Most of its funding comes from listeners. It gets a small amount of federal money very indirectly. It is public television and radio stations that receive some federal funding, but they are customers of NPR, not directors of it, and did not fire Mr. Williams. Please write your senators and congressmen asking them to close the tax loopholes that billionaire media moguls like Murdoch use to make you and me support their dishonest and frankly stupid programming. And remind the Democrats that Murdoch is taking what is in effect a public subsidy in order to brainwash the public with Republican Party propaganda talking points. If they cannot see he is out to get them, and allow him to get away with legal tax evasion so as to gain ammunition with which to take them out, they deserve to be unemployed. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest While were at it, how about having Clear Channel start paying fair market value for all the broadcast licenses it holds as well?
#2. To: Brian S (#0) This has to be the lamest thing I’ve ever read. Fox doesn’t receive any different tax treatment than MSBNC or CNN. None of these companies get government subsidies like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The fact is that when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created, there were 3 national broadcast television networks, plus local radio stations. Now we have hundreds of cable television channels, digital satellite radio, digital terrestrial radio, and literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of internet radio, television, and print sites globally. We can get any type of news we want, any time we want, from any source we want, across the entire world. It is absolutely ridiculous that we are forced to pay for something that is not needed and quite frankly unwanted by half of the population. This is not the old Soviet Union and we don’t need a Prava. If someone likes NPR, fine. They can voluntarily contribute their own money. Oh yes, their contribution is tax deductible, which using the left's twisted logic also robs the government of "their" funds. Thomas Jefferson was 100% correct when he said: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." We should cut off funding to NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting immediately. "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson #3. To: jwpegler (#2) This has to be the lamest thing I’ve ever read. You should focus more on Brian's postings if you think this is the 'lamest'.... (chuckle) Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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