#1 2019-11-12 12:40:42
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#2 2019-11-13 14:52:42
I can only imagine what would happen here if the government decided they wanted to tax every television in the country $150 a year.
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#3 2019-11-13 14:58:42
TV licences were a thing here in the Land of the Long Weekend until 1974. The Whitlam Labor government decided that it was cheaper (and politically expedient) just to fund the national broadcaster directly rather than carry the costs of maintaining and enforcing the licensing system.
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#4 2019-11-13 23:08:40
GooberMcNutly wrote:
I can only imagine what would happen here if the government decided they wanted to tax every television in the country $150 a year.
For no commericals? I think you'd get quite a few takers, but not the mouth-breathers that love them some commercials.
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#5 2019-11-15 10:53:56
For the vast majority of Amuricans, commercials are the only time you can get anything _done_.
I would rather have commercials because they pay the high production costs I demand to get for *free* in my entertainment, not some BBC-ish show shot in a field with 2 camera men and a mic guy.
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#6 2019-11-15 11:01:22
GooberMcNutly wrote:
For the vast majority of Amuricans, commercials are the only time you can get anything _done_.
I would rather have commercials because they pay the high production costs I demand to get for *free* in my entertainment, not some BBC-ish show shot in a field with 2 camera men and a mic guy.
Or a quarry in Wales. As a cable customer, I'm already paying a license fee to watch broadcast TV channels but that doesn't stop them from showing the commercials anyway. And launching their own no commercials streaming services to boot. Let's face it, except for real-time sporting events and breaking news, broadcast TV is seeing its last days.
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