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Originally Posted by jj20x
Speakers of minority languages probably feel the same about paying the licence fee to fund programmes solely in English.
Cornwall had its own language, which became extinct in the 19th century. The point of these channels is to prevent the Gaelic and Welsh languages also becoming extinct.
Fortunately, previously extinct languages such as Cornish and Manx are being revived. So there may come a time when some of your licence fee also goes towards supporting channels in these languages.  |
Yes, the last I heard was that they were trying to bring back the dinosaurs!
I think I'm beginning to support the campaign to abolish the TV licence altogether if this is how our money is to be spent. Perhaps the support of small minority languages in this way is a better use of the National Lottery money collected. At least people can choose whether to buy National Lottery tickets.
Seriously, public money should not be used to support these small minority interests. There should be a different way of raising money that enables people to choose. A separate voluntary Arts and Culture tax, perhaps, that taxpayers can elect to pay if they wish to. National taxation should be used for the essentials only, such as defence, education, social services and so forth.
Unless we are sensible about how we spend our money, we will never be a low tax economy and people will continue to struggle.