I don't mean to sound like a dork, but if NPR no longer took public money at all, wouldn't it then not really be National Public Radio?
Of course estimating taxes based on the "working" population is going to be off. There really isn't an accurate way to calculate this. But let's pretend that only millionaires actually pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits from the government. There are 4 million millionaires in the US. That would mean it only costs these imaginary cash-providing citizens about $.75 a year to help provide public radio to an entire nation.
But remember, according to Benjamin Disraeli there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
But rather than all of us sitting around here complaining we could be starting a radio program about wheeling. Maybe we could even get it on NPR....
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