Thread: 'Austerity' at the BBC
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Old 30-12-2012, 12:12   #157
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Re: 'Austerity' at the BBC
It's not a matter of "getting away with it" though. And "public expectations" is also completely irrelevant. I don't "expect" the NHS to waste £12bn on a computer system that doesn't work. But they did and there's nothing anyone can do about it now.

I'm sure the "public expects" everyone else to pay as much tax as possible but, of course, they wouldn't take any and all legal steps available to them to pay as little as possible, would they?

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Originally Posted by Sirius View Post
The argument by some is "the others do it and the BBC is in line with them" In other words if the others can get away with it why not the BBC. the difference is the others don't get a hand out from the tax payer each year
So the NHS doesn't get a "hand out" via our taxes? Weird. Coulda sworn they did
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