Sometimes we just get used to something and therefore accept it as being quite normal, whether it makes any sense or not.Take the TV licence. Precisely what is it for?
- Er - it funds the BBC.
Correct. I shall not enter the debate as to whether or not the Beeb should be self-funding but shall just consider the bureaucratic nightmare which is the present system.
What is the point of a licence at all when virtually every household has TV? - Whether that is black & white or colour is actually irrelevant.
You have a complex system to collect a mere percentage of what should be collected. When that fails, you have to have TV detector vans, prosecution cases being made, courts time wasted, fines which have to be enforced etc.
Why not simply fund the national broadcaster from general taxation?
