[Gllug] BBC Open Source

[John Winters]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 10:16 +0100, Robert Newson wrote:
> James McGuigan wrote:
> 
> ...
> > You could say the same thing about income tax, sales tax or any other 
> > tax. There are at least two things that are "better" about the TV 
> > licence tax:
> > 
> > 1. The money goes directly to the BBC and not into a central pot - more 
> > taxes should be like this, it means the logic behind the tax and the 
> > benefits derived from it are directly linked. The government can't 
> > simply double the tax because its trying to save up for its next war 
> > with Iran.
> 
> Agreed: Road Tax should go on Roads, Fuel Tax should go on Fuel/Transport

As has been pointed out elsewhere, we don't have a road tax, but if we
did then where would you draw the line?  Motor vehicles cause a vast
amount of expense to be incurred in hospitals, so clearly the road tax
would need to be spent on roads and hospitals.  By the same reasoning
you could quickly add dozens of other categories with a demand on the
tax - in fact, practically everything.

John

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