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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Having spent a large chunk of my career applying means tests - just take my word for it - assessing each individual family's ability to pay would cost so much that the actual fee would go through the roof and the poorest families would pay more than they pay now
PS and there would have to be a staffed fraud dept for the ones who lie
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I wouldn't wish to argue with you on practicality. I am sure you're right. However I still ponder why there was a huge fuss made over the poll tax, and yet not over the BBC licence fee. Since the BBC is essentially a tax, and our government already have a way of raking it in based on income, could this not be used?