Seriously, the British have the most absurd government I've ever heard of. Of course, we've got a few of our own. For example, did you know that in Charleston, the fire department is legally allowed to blow up your house? Or that it's illegal to dance in public in Lancaster? Or that in my own hometown, Spartanburg, it's illegal to eat watermelons in the Magnolia Street cemetary?
Of course, the same source as the above, DumbLaws.com, informs me that the British government requires that you allow someone who knocks at the door to come in and use your bathroom and that companies are allowed to vote in London elections. Oh, and that, it's legal to shoot Scotsmen with a bow and arrow in York, except on Sundays.
Maybe the problem is just government in general....
Posted by Blog Jones at November 15, 2004 11:21 PM
| Category: Politics
, The "Lighter Side"
In most European countries, the state run television networks are funded by a tax on television sets. In exchange, TV is very good quality and has few commercials.
So, if you don't own a television, you don't pay to support it. Sounds fair to me.
I lived in Germany for 4 years - the tax was collected on the honor system, although the government did have special radar trucks which could sense TV's in operation on a city block and compare the addresses with names of people who had paid the tax.
Posted by: gordo at December 31, 2004 10:04 AMThe problem arises when the government compels you to support their TV station under the threat of jail time if you do not comply. If it was like cable TV, where you could choose to have a TV but not subscribe to the station, it'd be fine, but to force every TV-owning citizen to support the station whether they wanted to see it or not is theft.
Posted by: Blog Jones at January 5, 2005 11:29 PM