>>If your arguments are to hold water then I guess the same should happen >>with the roads - we could have cheaper licenses for cars incapable of >>pulling four adults up Chidock (sp?) Hill and close those motorways, >>roads and lanes which we don't use personally, get rid of the railways, >>airports, harbours and buses that the majority of the population never >>use, etc. > >I'm afraid your comparisons don't work.
<snip> >People don't need a licence to use a bus, train, or airport, so your >references to those facilities aren't relevant here. I am required to have a licence for my TV. Where I live there is no Channel 5 or Freeview reception. Do you think the TV licensing people will give me a discount? David
