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blasdel on March 10, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Management today review of 37signal's "Rework"

British Residents do directly pay for the BBC, and not via normal taxes like the US's PBS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...

rythie on March 10, 2010 [–]

That's a good point and since I pay it, I should have thought of that. It does seem more like a tax, since you pay it for having a T.V. regardless of weather you watch it or not.

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