On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:20 +0200, Willy van Gulik wrote: [...]
I own a car and didn't plugged the antenna so I m unable to receive any FM Radio and so on. My building hasn't any antenna connection to cable or whatever.
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Sorry, this might be fully OT, but never mind.
Let's back up the whole 'Billag' thing. About 60% has got and/or: - radio receivers in the house or in the car or incl in the handy - tv receivers (incl. UMTS handy receivers) - broadband access with installed media players
So there might be around 2-5% of swiss households who doesn't have any media receivers according to the actual law. In early days there had been more, ok, but their getting fewer and fewer (also because more and more receivers are taxable).
So why don't we/they stop the whole thing and make everyone liable to pay those taxes? We could safe much administration expense, e.g. all the wages of those ppl who are checking our hoseholds. And this will finally lower those taxes and make them affordable for everyone.
Any drawback? This will raise the unemployment. Just an idea...
Have a nice weekend - Dan