richfool wrote:Wouldn't it be simpler if the BBC started showing adverts and funded itself, and let the rest of us get on with our lives, without the TV licence which amounts to yet another tax. It could then pay its presenters what it could afford to, like any other business. I resent it using my money to overpay its staff, and to support its biased programmes...
Apart from anything else...
Why is a non transparent method of paying for the BBC, via the purchase price of products being advertised, mysteriously better than being taxed transparently for watching BBC programmes?
richfool wrote:...not to mention its agents harassing the public (at further expense) who may have chosen not to have a TV .
Then they don't pay the TV licence, do they? Unlike those who have chosen not to have TVs, who still have to pay for TV advertising costs.