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Originally Posted by twobits
Why should people be forced to support through taxes tv shows that they won't directly. If people want it they will pay, if not what does it matter if it goes away? It would probably become more expensive then it is now. They would create tv lobbyist, tv bureaucrats, tv studies, and probably even tv police all funded through these taxes. Just another expense we would have no control over. Seems a pretty bad idea.
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Actually BBC is quite a good TV company. I'd say it is probably the best in West Europe that I can watch. They have good quality shows, nice documentaries.
The subsidies give some form of freedom. The artists there are able to live comfortably and not obey the profit mantra all the time.
Income re-destribution is not really that bad! I know that a lot of USA people think that capitalism is the way to go and that any govermnet intervention is just nasty socializm creeping in.
The truth is that you just have to balance between the two. I lived in both systems and I can assure you - event the USSR type of socialism had its positive sides.