Hi, > In the Netherlands they decided it > was cheaper to dismantle the organisation checking people weather or not > they payed for the license, and made it part of the income tax system. > Saves a lot of money.
but it makes it subject to political control and pressure, becoming part of the normal government budgetting cycle. If your Finance Minister has been getting a particularly bad press in the months leading to the budget, and he has to choose between funding a new hospital for cute little babies, and some satirical programming and costume dramas, which will he choose? -- Cheers, Bob
