Some have said a nations greatness can be measured by the voice of its artists. One of many roles of government in a society as free as diverse and as democratic as ours is to foster and promote the creation and accessibility to the arts and public broadcasting. It is not the role of government to influence or dictate the contents of the medium. On so many occasions our citizens have supported the arts and public broadcasting, and it is time to free these institutions of the vagrities of annual federal budgetary battles, and to establish a trust fund which can be drawn from in perpetuity. It shall be funded by a variety of mechanisms, one of which is to allow public broadcasters to auction off parts of the broadcast spectrum in the free market and to use proceeds for funding. Secondly, I recommend a broadcasting tax on televisions and radios.