The Federal Government prints the dollar. If you buy something with that dollar, did the Federal Government fund your expense? It's just as disingenuous to say

The Federal Government prints the dollar. If you buy something with that dollar, did the Federal Government fund your expense? It's just as disingenuous to say NPR is directly funded by the Federal government as it is to say NPR receives little money from the Federal Government since it gets a lot of money from CPB which actually gets money from Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting#Funding_of_and_by_the_corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...