Reply to post: Re: Commercial TV is also a mandatory tax...

Swiss see Telly Tax as a Big Plus, vote against scrapping it

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Re: Commercial TV is also a mandatory tax...

@ Cynic_999 "But that would be true regardless of whether the TV licence fee existed or not, so I'm not sure what point you are making."

The OP isn't advocating abolition of commercial broadcaster. The point (I think) the OP is making is that it's relatively easy to choose not to fund the BBC by not paying the TV licence; providing you adhere to the consequent restrictions of not watching live TV as it is broadcast and not using iPlayer.

On the other hand choosing not to fund media outlets that are financed in any part by advertising is one helluva lot trickier as you'd have to avoid buying anything (and from anywhere) that advertises. Take your weekly grocery spend as one example - Even if you limited it to own brand products at your local owner operated corner shop which doesn't even advertise in the local rag you'll probably find their wholesale/supplier organisation (e.g. Happy Shopper, Booker/Budgens, Costcutter etc) do advertising of some form.

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