Reply #20: PBS isn't a private charity. I'm not 100% sure why you are even mentioning it here

[Oregone]

It serves a vital social function (hence, why its publicly sponsored) providing a necessary service to the general public (in theory). Further, I do not think anyone should even be volunteering for PBS, being that all necessary job functions of it should be 100% funded by the government. Hell, compare it to the CBC who receives $1 billion in federal funding. If proportionally the US put $10 billion behind this service, not only would it improve in its function, but it could actually pay people to help it do so.

In fact, I would argue that any "necessary" function that ANY charity provides should be 100% financed by the government, and should rather be a paid job. Handing out an fundy anti-abortion fliers is not necessary, and should not ever be deemed so. Hence, this work should not be sponsored, paid for, or subsidized in any way by the government.

If someone has to "volunteer" for a job, I would deem that job (by some drawn out tautology) "unnecessary". Hence, the society shouldn't be burdened to pay for service that are not necessary or profitable.