An argument bout tv licence

[X Oilman]

I see your point, 
The democratic part being in that as we hand the cash over we agree to tolerate adverts/commercial channels, In my opinion not everyone/viewer benefits from this democracy tho :)

[RedRobin]

The TV licence is democratic, dont wanna watch, dont pay.

The bbc being a public service, information service, must be funded somehow, being funded by the viewer ensures the impartiality of the content in relation to that.

....I don't find the BBC to be wholly impartial and you have to pay the BBC licence fee even if you don't watch BBC progs.

I don't have Sky TV but at least you do have a choice not to pay if you don't want to watch Sky progs.

What is both ridiculous and totally wrong in my opinion is that you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a TV licence. Do you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a Road Tax licence?

[rich83]

The TV licence is democratic, dont wanna watch, dont pay.

The bbc being a public service, information service, must be funded somehow, being funded by the viewer ensures the impartiality of the content in relation to that.

....I don't find the BBC to be wholly impartial and you have to pay the BBC licence fee even if you don't watch BBC progs.

I don't have Sky TV but at least you do have a choice not to pay if you don't want to watch Sky progs.

What is both ridiculous and totally wrong in my opinion is that you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a TV licence. Do you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a Road Tax licence?

Just pay or don't watch TV.... then theres no issue.


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Not long to go Robin....  

[X Oilman]

The TV licence is democratic, dont wanna watch, dont pay.

The bbc being a public service, information service, must be funded somehow, being funded by the viewer ensures the impartiality of the content in relation to that.

....I don't find the BBC to be wholly impartial and you have to pay the BBC licence fee even if you don't watch BBC progs.

I don't have Sky TV but at least you do have a choice not to pay if you don't want to watch Sky progs.

What is both ridiculous and totally wrong in my opinion is that you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a TV licence. Do you risk a Criminal Record if caught without a Road Tax licence?

Well the impartiality and public service provider is the main legal defence of the fee, whether or not we agree with that isnt the point. and you only risk the criminal record if you break the actual law
I agree that its a ridiculous law, as ridiculous as the adverts on sky.

[jonnym]

Yeh actually that's quite interesting robin! Having no tax is non-recordable but no tv licence is!! Think the same thing applies to fare evasion as lots of young people get criminal records for chancing it or more commonly genuine errors - nearly been there myself, but that's not material.

[Vick N]

TV licence. 

Have a read:

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Questions%20and%20answers.htm