I recently read that that Connie Ballmer, who is married to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has contributed $80 million to National Public Radio (NPR) to help support their operations in the face of their recent federal funding cut off. An additional anonymous donation of $33 million brings the total fundraising haul to $113 million dollars. All of this lovely cash does little to push NPR into working within marketplace realities, so this might simply be a blast of cash that forestalls the need to make difficult business decisions a few years from now, but private donations are far more palatable than never ending government subsidies, which perhaps points the way forward to one potential solution as we try to find a path to reconciling our tax revenues and expenditures, which is a can we can no longer kick down Read more