Via a political process we’ve agreed that it is reasonable for the president of the U.S. to earn $400,000 per year. Does it make sense to use tax dollars to support non-profit organizations whose employees pay themselves more than that?

This Wall Street Journal article by Senator Jim Demint says that Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio executives earned between $$370,000/year and $1.2 million per year. Regardless of whether or not the non-profit organizations could have found people to work for less money, there is a reasonable question of whether the government should forcibly collect tax dollars from folks earning the median $16/hour wage and feed those dollars to public broadcasting employees earning far more than President Obama.

Who voted for that?