February 27, 2011 8:40PM 

# One Step Forward, One Step Back 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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This weekend I opened *The Washington Post* to find the editors [arguing](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/26/AR2011022603373.html) that Congress should cut federal subsidies to the [Corporation for Public Broadcasting](https://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-25.pdf), the Institute of Peace, and the [National Endowment of the Arts](https://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-25.pdf), and George F. Will [arguing](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505002.html?sub=AR) that Congress should preserve federal subsidies to Teach for America.

Weird.

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