No. 1 - The TV License (let's start simple)
If I want a TV I go to a shop that sells TVs. I buy a TV, giving 23% of the money to the government, cos somehow they own 23% of the TV...
So now it's MY TV ... mine. It's my private property. I own it.
I bring it home to my house ... which is mine ... I own it ... and I set it up.
Now, even before I turn it on, the government says I need a license...
Sorry?
I need a license to own MY TV which is in MY home on MY private property...??
Take another example.
I can go to a car dealers and buy a car. I can get the car delivered to my home and park it in my driveway.
I don't need a license...!!!
That's right! ... I don't need a license to BUY a car or OWN a car. I only need a license to DRIVE a car. And the license is my proof that I am fully qualified to drive the car having gone through various training and testing.
I don't need to be trained to watch TV. I don't need to pass a test to show that I am competent in watching MY TV and not a danger to other couch-users.
Why should I need a license to watch TV?
“It pays for the programming...”
Well actually ... I don’t want to be programmed! I’m quite happy to inform myself about all matters civic, social, economic, global, local, educational, etc. I will consume what I want in terms of news, information and entertainment ... I won’t have anyone else force-feed me a diet of indigestible garbage.
“It funds public service broadcasting”
It’s NOT “public service” broadcasting. It’s “government-service” broadcasting. It regurgitates press releases from political party press offices with no critical analysis, excluding and often countering the opinion of the general public. Sharon Ní Bheoláin’s interview with Erica Fleming is a particularly blatant case in point.
RTE is the “State Broadcaster” ... not the “Public Broadcaster”. Get it?
The TV license is a BULL-SHIT-TAX! It is made up shite! It is a FEAR TAX!
Don’t have a license ... you can’t have a TV. How could you live without it? ...the most addictive drug in the history of civilization ... TELEVISION. Imagine the withdrawal pains!! Where would you get your four-hour fix every single day without it???
Don’t have a license to watch YOUR TV in YOUR HOME ... it’s jail for you!
Recently the government(s) have been toying with the idea of a “Broadcasting Charge” to replace the TV license. This is in response to what is called “New Media”. With broadband (that many people can’t get!), computer technology and “d’Internet” it is possible to view television programming without a TV. Well the gubmint simply can’t have that!
In the 2016 Census there are two new questions:
Q. Does your household have a PC
Q. Does your household have access to the Internet?
Why do the government need to know if you have a PC or not? It’s YOUR PC, it’s private property.
It is NOBODY’S BUSINESS whether you have a PC or a salad bowl or a gold plated toilet brush!
Answer. If you volunteer the information that you have a PC, then the government doesn;t care anymore if you have a TV or not...
Why do they need to know you have broadband access? The government are constantly talking about rolling out broadband nationwide. NEWSFLASH: The government will NEVER roll out broadband.
They’re THE GOVERNMENT! They will contract private companies for STUPID-MONEY to get broadband to the people ... WHY? So they can demand the BROADCAST CHARGE! And you just know [REDACTED] will probably get the contract!!
The ‘State’ insists on having a State Broadcaster. They want this to be funded by TV licenses (as well as massive subventions from the central exchequer AND advertising revenue from commercial advertising ... no wonder the ‘celebrities’ (ugh) are on six figure salaries).
Imagine if TV or radio didn’t exist and the government only had print media, so they produced a daily newspaper. And they delivered it to your home, in through your letter box, without you requesting it or particularly wanting it, and actually you when it does land on your hall mat you never actually read it! A bit like a domino’s pizza flyer. So you use it to light your fire or put on the kitchen floor for the cat to shit on...
Now imagine the government says you need a license to READ THEIR NEWSPAPER! That’s what your TV license is!
They’ll send a bill ... with a big harp on it ... telling you you are required under law and pain of fine or imprisonment to pay for their unsolicited mail, whether you read it or not.
Crazy, right?
No it’s actually called “taxation”. It is legalized extortion for unsolicited goods. Theft.
If the government want the State Bullshitter to be paid for...MAKE IT PAY PER VIEW!
STOP sending me unsolicited programmes through the airways, spamming my PRIVATE television box with ads for TetraDelta (showing my age) and Ireland’s Saddest Family and Ray D’Arcy’s “I’m a DJ...who-the-fuck-thought-i-would-be-good-on-TV?”
If you think it’s worth it ... pay for it. If you think it’s fair ... pay for it. If you think fear is a legitimate basis for taxation ... pay for it.
I don’t.
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