Mitt wants to kill Public Broadcasting? Which costs more: PBS or the Marine Corps Marching Band?

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5. Yeah, it is complicated. The total budget of all the Military bands is $500 million.

According to Wiki, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets:

"The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. For fiscal year 2012, its appropriation was US$445.2 million, including $1M in interest earned). The distribution of these funds was as follows:

$222.36M for direct grants to local public television stations;
$79.87M for television programming grants;
$69.18M for direct grants to local public radio stations;
$26.65M for PBS support;
$22.85M for grants for radio programming and national program production and acquisition;
$22.21M for CPB administrative costs;
$7.04M for the Radio Program Fund."

If you think about all the people employed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, it is money well spent.