The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill contains many
things that the party would like to keep under wraps. For example, the bill
sports a special journalism “tax credit” equal to
50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually.
Democrats love to yammer on about the separation of church
and state, but what about the separation of media and state? What of a free and
independent press and speaking truth to power? Stripping taxpayers’ of their
money and using it to fund the Fourth Estate would necessarily render American
“journalism” on par with Pravda and the Korean Central News Agency.
The mainstream media is already wildly biased in favor of
radical progressives and socialist programs. Much of what it “reports” is
fake news. Imagine if it was monetarily on the take from leftists in
government. No sentient being could ever again trust another word “journalists”
wrote or uttered.
Democrats are all about picking winners and losers. They
don’t leave anything to chance. Or a free market. They think they know best,
and they want to dictate every outcome. That is the opposite of what
legitimate governments believe…and do. As Jefferson noted, legitimate
governments derive their power solely from the people, and are instituted among
men to protect every individual’s natural rights. And to provide equal
opportunity…not equal outcomes.
Why do Democrats want to take money from some Americans and
give it to abortion clinics, illegal aliens, and journalists? Why do they
provide big tax breaks and subsidies for wind and solar power? Why not tax
breaks for miners, plumbers, policemen, nurses or baristas?
If the Democrats’ bill were to pass with the journalism tax
credit intact, journalists would be ever more beholden to—and besotted with—far
left Democrats and their freedom-killing policies.
We would constantly be subjected to incredibly misleading
headlines and preposterously biased articles.
On second thought, maybe it wouldn’t make much difference
after all.
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