Why The UK Television License Should be Abolished
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Forking out almost £150.00 for a TV license a year is ridiculous in this day and age when digital tv is ruling the roost for visual entertainment. It’s time this law to fund British Broadcasting Communications was scrapped.
I am calling today for every single household in the UK with a TV to stand with me in calling for an abolishment of the TV license. Since 1946, the British Broadcasting and Communications has put this tax upon television and radio owners in order to restore it’s quality standard in the programming it delivers to the public and the control of the productions behind the viewing screens. Whilst I don’t argue against its quality, I argue against the need for us, the viewing public, to have this tax enforced upon us in these hard times of recession and the increase in TV entertainment through digital services.
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In these hard times of struggle, we are struggling to keep the roofs over our head, pay our high energy bills and….. The TV License fee of £142.50 a year is an extra burden on each and every one of us, whatever the class, whatever the income. People of the noughties have subscriptions with satellite television companies or freeview boxes in their homes. Why should we still be paying extra for a channel some of us barely watch? And for those who haven’t updated their analogue televisions to digital. You now have to dip further into your thirsty pockets to buy new tv’s before the analogue switch off in 2010.
We are a troubled nation in troubled times and like every other company, the BBC is going to have to learn to stand on it’s own two feet and stop bleeding us. We must take a stand against this tax that is imposed on us on average, around 50 years of our lives. As a nation and as individuals with a right to receive freedom of information, we must stand against the responsibility of the BBC’s kitty tin. It’s time to shake this burden off our shoulders and say “No more!”. Every household in the UK could not be taken to court and fined. They can’t lock us all up in jail. Also the government owe us! Members of Parliament have been frittering away taxpayers money on personal luxuries for years. It’s payback time so they should be penalised from the hefty share that goes into the Government Consolidated Fund.
The way we view our entertainment has changed over the years and so must the basis of this tax. The arguments there, it has been for years. Now’s the time to do something about it. Let us unite together, let us speak together and let it be heard……We won’t shoulder this TV License any longer.
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I’ve never heard of such a thing to have a TV license – -wow…
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
I didn’t realise the TV licence still existed in the UK. I thought it belonged in the ‘olden days’ like my English childhood.
Agree with your comments. We have an excellent government broadcaster in Australia, but it’s funded through the general tax system. It probably costs more to administer the UK sysem than they make out of it, I should think.