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In article <1273@otc.otca.oz> brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
   >in article <2981@servax0.essex.ac.uk>, zotog@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (Zotos G) says:
   >> In UK they use a system (detector, presumably a sort of receiver) to detect
   >> a non-licence TV household.
   >
   >Is this true???? I can't believe that you still need a licence in the UK to 
   >own a TV set (or perhaps use one?).  TV licences were scrapped in Australia 
   >in the late '60s, and from what we hear in Oz about Maggie's right wing Free
   >Market society I would have thought such an antiquated and absurd impost
   >would have gone long ago.
   >-- 
Actually Australia got rid of the Licence fee in 1973 because it was a
regressive tax. i.e. the fee as a percentage of your income was higher for
a low income earner than for the more affluent.  The government of the day
was concerned for the ordinary citizen (A rare thing).   Somehow I don't
think those sort of inequalities matter very much to the Thatchers
of this world.

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