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Originally posted by Six6Six
reply to post by wigit
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
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
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 ToneDeaf
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If you do not watch any stations affiliated with bbc, but had
private satellite would you still need to pay a fee ?
. . . if so, the tax is just a money grab, and an endorsement
of a monopoly.
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Originally posted by mattifikation
Wow. The UK is the prime example of what happens when people sit back quietly and let the government strip away their rights.
Originally posted by Mandrakerealmz
um? TV Licencing fees? Is that a joke? Every person in my country would agree that sounds like a scam.....
Originally posted by Revolution9
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Revolution9
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
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
Originally posted by Mandrakerealmz
um? TV Licencing fees? Is that a joke? Every person in my country would agree that sounds like a scam.....
Yes I thought the same thing when I first learnt about TV licenses a few years ago. It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. In Australia we have "pay TV" which is like satellite TV (Foxtel etc), which has a monthly cost. Then we have "free to air TV" which anyone can tune into for free. The adverts pay for the programs on free TV, we can have as many TV's as we like in our house and we don't have to pay any sort of license fee. We don't have any stupid TV inspectors coming into our houses and violating our privacy. And that's how it should be.
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.