You Cut's Latest -- Defund NPR!

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While some members of Congress are grandstanding about cutting NPR, Minority Whip Eric Cantor and his team at You Cut went to work making the defunding of NPR an item on You Cut.  We believe it will end up the number one item this week to cut:

Terminate Taxpayer Funding of National Public Radio


Savings of Tens of Millions of Dollars (potentially in excess of a hundred million dollars)

National Public Radio's (NPR) recent decision to terminate commentator Juan Williams contract because of comments he expressed on another station have brought new found attention to NPR's receipt of taxpayer funds.

NPR receives taxpayer funding in two different ways. First, they receive direct government grants from various federal agencies, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the past two years this direct funding has totaled approximately $9 million. But NPR also receives taxpayer funds indirectly. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes grants to public radio stations. While some of these grants can be used for any purpose, some can only be used to acquire and produce programming. Often this programming is purchased from NPR. Indeed programming fees and dues paid by local public radio stations to NPR accounts for approximately 40% of NPR's budget or about $65 million last year. A portion of these funds were originally federal tax dollars provided to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to the local public radio stations.

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