Yearly TV Licence? ...Really?

[Steve]

---  "Mary Ann" <macloudt at ...> wrote:
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> ... 
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> Steve:
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> > I just strikes me more as a system that consumes money 
> > rather than a system that collects money with some 
> > assurance that the money actually goes to the necessary
> > cause.
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> Mary Ann:
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> Out of curiousity, what exactly do you mean by 
> "the necessary cause"?
> 
> ...

bboyminn:

Excellent response and very enlightening.

What I mean by 'the necessary cause' is actual TV programs of
all sorts. 

How much of the money collected goes to bureaucratic excess 
and excess Bureaucracy, and how much actually produces something
of value.

By way of illustration, there are more people working in the
US Dept of Agriculture than there are farmers. 

Or, why does the USA government collect money from the State
only to turn around and dole it back to them. For every hand
the money passes through, the total value of that money
shrinks. Our governement spend millions, probably billions if
not trillions, simply taking money out of its left pocket and
putting it in its right.

Classic examples of both 'bureaucratic excess and excess 
Bureaucracy'.

Bureaucratic excess is simply wasteful spending. What do
we care if the ashtrays cost $600 or we are paying $50 for
a box of Oreo cookies; it's not our money?

Excess bureacracy is simply bloated middle management filled
with people who consume money but add no value to the system
in return for that money. 

Governments are famous for both these.

Sorry, got off on a bit of a rant there.

Steve/bboyminn