The Corporation for Public Broadcasting received $445 million in federal funding during 2016. This equaled .012 percent of the federal budget and cost each person about $1.35 per year. The same year, privately held U.S. corporations received $92 billion in federal subsidies. This equaled 205 times the amount allocated to the CPB and cost each person roughly $275 per year.

Perhaps there are better ways to address excessive federal spending than by reducing or eliminating funds for valuable public resources such as the CPB, PBS, and NPR.