When the tv licence fee was first introduced it made sense that only those privelidged few who could afford televisions should pay the licence fee but in this modern age where tv has become almost universal in evey home it seems madness to maintain an expensive to collect system for raising the finance to produce television programmes.
I agree with those who feel that since they are not interested in watching television they should not have to pay for the service but on the other hand it seems crazy that there is an expensive process of collecting licence fees from those who are liable to pay.
The cost of collecting the money could be cut at a stroke by the simple expedient of making a payment from tax revenues which would also save the majority of families who do currently pay the licence £140 per year and also prevent the ridiculous situation of people having to be sent to jail because they cannot afford the tv licence fee or the fines that are imposed if thaey are taken to court.
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