Exactly the Wrong Way
While independent journalism is a nice thing, taxing new and innovative businesses to support older forms of media is clearly going to impede progress. And the BBC's television license fee should never have been instituted, and it should be repealed as quickly as possible, not extended.
Television was once the chief source of entertainment for lower-income households, and so a tax on television sets was a horribly regressive measure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
