and I can't help wondering if such an agenda has found a voice here.

sniff sniff

.....smells suspiciously like a conspiracy to me.........probably one funded by the all-powerful Rupert Murdoch.......

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The BBC isn't the government. It's a corporation with its own management and board of governors.

And with all of the power of a government agency. The 'not a government' thing is a mere fiction on paper. Any agency which can force people to pay a tax is a government department. The remainder is mere semantics to make it all sound good.

If you don't own a TV, you don't have to pay for BBC output (and you can still listen to radio broadcasts).

That's like saying that if you don't own a house, then you don't have to pay property taxes. But most people want someplace to live. And most people want to watch TV. At least some. Too bad that the good people of the UK have a government.....excuse me......a corporation which taxes them for the privilege.

I say bring back the old English hearth tax -- in a modernized form. After all, if people don't own a furnace, then they don't have to pay a tax for heating their houses in the winter. Message edited on: 03/06/2006 18:16

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