Originally Posted By: hybrid8

So that's the same whether you have one or ten TVs in your house or one or ten people in the family?


It is the same no matter how many people or TVs there are (though there are some discounts for elderly and partial sighted people, I fact I think it is free if there is someone in the household who is over 75).

Originally Posted By: hybrid8

BTW, I did mean wider sources of tax money for that specific comment.


If it came from general taxation then it would have been cut back repeatedly and the BBC wouldn't be what it is today. The government of the day often doesn't like what the BBC gets up to and the structure of the licence fee goes some way to protecting it from government cut backs while still allowing a system that doesn't need to be funded from subscription or adverts.

Exactly what benefit do you expect there would have been by funding it from general taxation ?


Edited by andy (17/07/2009 13:07)
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