Don't go to Switzerland
January 15th, 2015 at 11:29:36 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Except ads serve a purpose, I have learned an untold amount of info from commercials, we all have. They are the pulse of the times we live in, they always have been. Brits don't like them because they think Capitalism is evil. As they slowly go broke as their welfare society strangles them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
January 15th, 2015 at 11:57:13 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I said that many Brits are fine with the fee, but certainly many of them want more commercial TV.
Scrap the BBC TV Licence. £145.50 per year to fund child abuse, tax avoidance and other dirty secrets. The House of Lords recommended scrapping broadcast all- together and transferring everything to Internet Protocol Television and selling the UHF channels to cell companies.You could then easily collect money by selling it like Netflix. Brits have an advantage that if only 10% of the English speakers in the work outside of Britain wanted to buy their TV, they should have a revenue windfall which would presumably more than make up for the license fee. |
January 16th, 2015 at 3:26:13 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The TV tax in Israel only has a few weeks left http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4516428,00.html I don't read Hebrew (Obviously). http://www.iba.org.il/ |
January 16th, 2015 at 11:57:04 AM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
The fee is on the house hold for the TV (broadcast reception device) and not charged when buying it. It's a yearly fee. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
January 16th, 2015 at 12:36:46 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | I thought the Wizard was implying that you just tune into French TV broadcasts. No one knows you have the TV. Technically, the French TV tax is only 20% lower than the UK tax. If they have broadcast towers near the channel, maybe they can tax the residents of UK who watch their TV. But the article did say that many people avoid paying the tax. The government hires people to spy on their neighbors and gives them 20 pounds per person for everyone they badger into paying the tax. If that doesn't work they take them to court. In 2011 165,000 people were brought before the bench, and 140-odd thousand were given a criminal record for not having their fee. |
January 16th, 2015 at 12:55:07 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I would be one of them. Just the thought of this makes me angry. Fined for watching TV. Why not a breathing tax, they breathe the Brit air, that can't be free too. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
January 16th, 2015 at 1:16:13 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | What are the main international revenue generators for Switzerland? Hot Cocoa? Army Knives? Watch Movements? |
January 16th, 2015 at 1:27:56 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Cuckoo clocks Secretive banks The Swiss Guard Swiss chocolates Rent on their part of the LHC at CERN? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
January 16th, 2015 at 1:53:00 PM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
Again it's not the TV channel watching that is licenced/taxed, it's the reception equipment. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
January 16th, 2015 at 2:26:52 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
So you can watch TV without a TV then? Of course it's the watching they're taxing. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |