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Comment by moralestapia

2 days ago

>Public is intended to mean "supported by taxes".

For you, probably, for me it means "from/for the people".

Yeah, as in "We the people". As in "Of the people, by the people, for the people" Taxes are how "we the people" pay for public things (libraries, parks, highways, sidewalks, schools, etc.)

See my comment below: in usual terms, in Europe “public” means technically “supported by taxes” -which is why most “public” media is most of the time pro-government (bar inertia).