I think it's already clear I disagree with your premise that the BBC is only useful to an insignificant number of tax payers and that such taxation is therefore

I think it's already clear I disagree with your premise that the BBC is only useful to an insignificant number of tax payers and that such taxation is therefore "theft". I also disagree that the only use of this money is to "inefficiently fund some low-quality education for someone else's child". I think an educated populace is in everyone's interests. There are obvious public health benefits, for a start. In terms of parts of your comments I consider irrelevant: in your later comment, the reference to the NYT (I explained why earlier), and the earlier reference to e.g. the Iraq war - although I can see what you're trying to get at with this point (civilisations doing questionable things, therefore the idea of doing things "for the good of civilisation" being something of a fallacy) I find it difficult to understand the relevance when we're considering a public broadcaster.