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I'm sure that is part of it, but I would love to see the breakdown of the costs. When it was first introduced it made sense to have a fee, not many people had
by saberdancer 6y ago
I'm sure that is part of it, but I would love to see the breakdown of the costs.
When it was first introduced it made sense to have a fee, not many people had a TV so by collecting the fee, you didn't tax the people without it. But today everyone has it, so this no longer applies.
Independence argument has some merit, but I would expect that there can be different methods that would provide the same level of independence.
- vidarh 6y agoIt's ironically gone from being a pretty progressive tax (only relatively well off people had TV's) to being a very regressive tax ("everyone" has TV's but you pay the same amount no matter how much you earn). The independence argument has largely been destroyed by the government itself - the last few governments have tightened their control of the management of the BBC considerably to a point where budget control matters much less.
- pydry 6y agoIndependence went with the Hutton enquiry when Parliament set up the BBC trust to replace the BBC board of governors. It gradually shifted from being an independent well staffed news organization that routinely held the government to account to an understaffed RT-like propaganda outfit and huffpost-like reprinter of press releases.