Originally posted by Six6Six
reply to post by wigit

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TV license is the same as protection money. SO don't pay it. If everyone stopped paying it then what can they do.

Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Revolution9

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Ok....

I can see you've lost the plot completely, so I won't waste my time.

I will just say that I don't watch much TV myself and leave what I do watch down to a few select programmes. Currently, they be Top Gear, Fringe, South Park and recently, the new Sherlock Holmes series, which is actually quite a good homage to Sir A.C Doyle.

Personally, it seems you're actually quite pretentious and believe yourself above others simply because you like crap from years ago, as opposed to crap from today.

Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Revolution9

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Ok....

I can see you've lost the plot completely, so I won't waste my time.

I will just say that I don't watch much TV myself and leave what I do watch down to a few select programmes. Currently, they be Top Gear, Fringe, South Park and recently, the new Sherlock Holmes series, which is actually quite a good homage to Sir A.C Doyle.

Personally, it seems you're actually quite pretentious and believe yourself above others simply because you like crap from years ago, as opposed to crap from today.

Originally posted by Revolution9

Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Revolution9

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Ok....

I can see you've lost the plot completely, so I won't waste my time.

I will just say that I don't watch much TV myself and leave what I do watch down to a few select programmes. Currently, they be Top Gear, Fringe, South Park and recently, the new Sherlock Holmes series, which is actually quite a good homage to Sir A.C Doyle.

Personally, it seems you're actually quite pretentious and believe yourself above others simply because you like crap from years ago, as opposed to crap from today.

Infact, you have proved my very point here. You have twisted things in such a distorted fashion as to say Shakespeare is junk. Have you ever read Shakespeare? Answer my question? You better not lie to me because I will test you on it. You state that you hardly watch tv yet you reel off a lot of junk programmes that tells me you do watch quite a lot of tv.

You are precisely the kind of person I was describing to tell me Shakespeare is junk and Southpark is a "select" programme.

When you have read some poetry, done some proper thinking and critical analysis of the world you live in get back to me you who tell me Shakespeare is junk!

edit on 23-3-2012 by Revolution9 because: spelling

Well for a start either there would be no TV or radio in the whole of the UK apart from Sky - that would give Murdoch a rather dangerous grip on power don't you think? Or there would be a large hike on tax!

Please read the thread or at least my post above yours and get a grasp of what the licence fee actually pays for.

Chart 3.2: The tax burden
OECD-30, total taxation revenue as a proportion of GDP, 2003

For the period 1965 to 2003, Australia’s tax burden has mostly been in the bottom third of OECD countries (Table 3.1). Australia’s tax burden has typically been lower than that in most of the European countries, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada, but has generally ranked above Japan and the United States.

Chart 3.3: The tax burden per capita
OECD-30, total taxation revenue per capita, 2003

On this basis, Australia has a low tax burden when measured as taxation revenue per capita (A$13,834) — slightly below the OECD-10 average of A$15,011. New Zealand ranks lower (A$12,122), and the United States (A$14,738), the United Kingdom (A$15,124) and Canada (A$16,436) are among those countries that rank higher (Chart 3.3).

The option? The BBC could carry commercials and produce and import the same mindless drivel we get on many of the commercial channels constantly punctuated by annoying commercials.