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Originally Posted by General Maximus
the whole thing is a joke and they need to get rid of it completely. How can it be legal to pay for something which you don't use. Just because you have a tv doesn't mean I am going to watch the BBC. The BBC is **** and get all my stuff from the hundreds of channels Sky provides. Why should I pay two subscriptions?
They had might as well make it law that everyone in the country pays road tax because we all walk on paths and use roads to get from A to B. If I won the euromillions I love to bring it up in the European court of human rights.
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Your council tax pays for services you don't use too.
Parliament believes that forcing TV users to buy a licence, and using the funds raised to run a public service broadcaster, is the best way of ensuring that there is a benchmark of quality and breadth of content in UK broadcasting.