reply to post by kdial1
Whenever I go to Europe inevitably I always end up getting stuck into political and religious talks with the locals
This is interesting to me. I live in Europe (Germany) and the only time I talked to a local about religion was when a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses
stopped me on my way to school one morning!
Here in Germany, we pay something like 250€ a year for a TV. That total goes up a little bit if you have a radio (even one in your car!) or the
Internet. I think it's stupid. The government makes a killing from that! I hope America never decides that every person with a TV or radio needs
to start paying to fund PBS and NPR.
And, unlike someone said earlier, you don't get what you pay for with these TV taxes. Over the summer, a story was being on by the government news
media, here in Germany, that I happened to know a quite a bit about because it hit (really) close to home, as one would say. The news, for what ever
reason (I have my suspicions), reported things falsely, even after they'd been told the truth and correct reason for things numerous times!
