This morning, I was driving the elementary school car pool, and my tactic of choice was playing classical music. This may have made the five children a little less wild, but it didn’t lull them into a reverie.

Right after 8 o’clock, between Beethoven’s First Symphony and a symphony by Frederick the Great, WETA, D.C.’s National Public Radio affiliate, cut away to two news segments from NPR News. The news items, through subtle but undeniable sins of omission, reminded me of why I resent my tax dollars funding NPR.

Here is a section from the first segment:

“House Republican leaders are still working to finalize their massive tax and border protection bill … But House Speaker Mike Johnson is still balancing a push for moderates to increase a tax break for constituents who live in districts with high state and local taxes with demands from conservatives to slash federal spending.”

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