• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren’t they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 hours ago

      They are as unpopular as any other taxes, people don’t like to give their money away, they’d much prefer to never do it.
      And yes, populistic enough government can eliminate whatever public good exists, but you need to be real donald trump about it.