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Article: Subsidies for public television can't be justified
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1999
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Conservatives rightly say the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
is akin to the body politic's appendix -- vestigial, purposeless and
occasionally troublesome. But the CPB is currently useful in
revealing the emptiness of Republican praise of limited government.
Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin was one of the two Democrats
who supported the Republicans' 1994 Contract with America, and in
1995 he changed parties. He is a conservative who favors the theory
of limited government and the practice of protecting, with tariffs,
Louisiana crawfish from the competition of Chinese crawfish. His
enthusiasm for the CPB indicates that he is having a hard time
getting the hang of being a Republican. ...