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Message: <p>[QUOTE="reverenddejesus, post: 120105, member: 34399"]The 'voluntary' part is what interests me because in most countries - or at least the ones where public service television is the norm - you donate to public television via a tax which is met by government investment (the kind that Mitt Romney wants to pull!). In Britain, we call it 'the licence fee'. Britain has commercial TV but you have to pay a licence fee if you want to watch TV at all because every commercial package contains the BBC. Conservatives and uber-capitalists resent it because they think TV stations should justify themselves as businesses, but most people think it's what keeps TV from becoming pure commerce. It's much harder to encourage PBS donations in the US because anyone with TV has already paid through the nose for it![/QUOTE]</p><p></p>