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Old 20-04-2008, 03:35 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Britannist View Post
The BBC is biased and it makes us pay them for their bias.

Why should I have to pay the BBC scrounger just so I can watch ITV or other independent channels?

Scrap the anachronistic compulsory television licence fee.
I quite agree, at the age of 37 I feel that I am able to make a judgement on what Channels I want to watch and am responsible enough to decide what is a fair rate to pay for them. The BBC if it wants me as a customour should provide good quality programes which appeal. As it stand they can put on what they like and i can do nothing about it.

Taxation in some shape or form always tends to be neccesary as governments have to raise revenue to fund certain things, the TV licence is not a neccesary tax in anyway.
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