run TV channel with significant funding. Weird, you may think, but true. It works because it operates and is funded independently of the government (by a national earmarked tax on TV ownership). That means there's one place for politicians to go to get their message out directly in a way that people will take seriously. Unfortunately the message that taxation, particularly federal taxation, is bad is drummed in too deep on both sides of the aisle for it to be possible in the US.

In truth, decommissioning a couple of hundred nuclear warhead would probably cover it more than adequately, but no-one wants that. People would lose their jobs, and that loses votes. Never mind that new ones would be created... And that's all apart from the insane noise there'd be about an INSIDIOUS STATE MEDIA (that is somehow totally different from C-SPAN and PBS), how the TV industry would fall into ruins due to EVIL MARKET INTERVENTION and lots of other nonsense of various kinds, I'm sure.