Why should the taxpayer fund it when its not an essential government service and we have $1 Trillion deficits?

Not everything on PBS is worth funding. 

If people want to get their tax money back (fat chance anyway), they could stop subsidizing big oil and corporate agriculture. That is where the beef is. PBS is peanuts by comparison.

They receive a small percantage of gov’t funding and the vast majority from elsewhere. They may be educational but it looks like they didn’t teach you to do research.

PBS receives approximately 12% of its funding from the federal government.

So, you mean, immoral greedy fucks that just watch the PBS broadcasting without donating to it...? Oh, you are considering everyone else’s tax dollars as your donation... Got it.

I’m not entirely clear why there’s a need for government funded television anymore. What makes any of their programming different than what any other station can provide? There’s no reason those shows can’t be on other channels and vice-versa. In fact, some are.

Netflix makes some great shows without taking my tax money to do it.

Lets look at some PBS content to discover why some non-immoral non-greedy fucks want to defund federal spending on PBS:

It absolutely should be defunded. While they do produce some quality programming, they are far from the only ones. Why spend taxpayer dollars on this when there is so much quality programming out there? What’s the point?

Bizzarley enough, David Koch is one of the big donors funding NOVA.

Yes, and Fox News is one side of the story and all the other news programs are the other. So when you combine them you can start creating your own opinions.

Friedrich A. Hayek was a serious economist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich…

I've lived all over the world, including Europe. The freedoms you so callously denounce, that American's enjoy, are without a doubt more liberating than any other country I've lived in. As to cell service, America has 300 million residents and is three times larger than the entire European Union with vast wide open…