Hi Which is like paying income tax for Health Service and then having to pay for prescriptions? ...
Can someone suggest a way of how you could efficiently and effectively collect payment (s) that reflects all individuals use of BBC services and programmes? Annual packages or subscription based on likes and dislikes/hours viewed or listened/bbc web pages viewed/services accessed/content downloaded/free concerts attended/freephone helpline numbers dialed/... Ken -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scot McSweeney-Roberts Sent: 27 February 2007 13:20 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM? Seb Potter wrote: > > > Are you a BT customer? If so, you could try to demand a refund of the > part of your line rental that goes towards providing phone boxes for > those people that don't own a mobile, or towards provision of > telephone services in rural areas for those that don't live in a city. > Or you could switch to a different (cheaper) telephone company - people are somewhat stuck with the BBC. > Pay council tax? Why not ask for a refund for provision of social > services to those people that require social services. > > Pay income tax? All those people that don't have jobs or need medical > care or use any of the thousands of public services that you don't. > You could cut your payments down to only those services you use. > But with the iPlayer, a person has to first pay the tax (ie, licence fee) and then they have to pay a single provider to actually use the service. So it's like paying for the NHS and then being forced to pay BUPA (and only BUPA and not, say, Norwich Union) to actually get a particular treatment. Scot - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
