Lots of people do watch the BBC so I must say yes.
The main point was that taxes are a convenient mechanism to even out the costs of general services.
I'd pay a little extra tax to do away with the license. Something else I don;t have to remember every year, I'd do the same for Third Party car insurance and VED too - which would solve a whole bunch of other problems...
Yeah and I really like handing over 50% of my income for the potholes, police whose job seems to be to hand out crime numbers, unavailable dentistry and free prescriptions for the Welsh and Scottish and the libraries that are closed when I can get to them.
The Government would also save a bit of cash by getting rid of the whole organization no longer needed to collect and enforce the licence fee.
It would make even more sense now that they're raiding the license fund to pay for non TV things like a contribution towards introducing faster broadband
Granted. Now take everything tax pays for - I mean every last thing - you will find that you benefit from some, surely.
Imaging how complicated the system would be if you were usage-tested on every facility you made use of, assessed as to how much you used it and weighted according to your means.
It would be ompossible to have a system which every single person would consider "fair".
Tax is the simplest and overall the fairest system IMO for a great many things.
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