How does the BBC get away with charging a license fee?

My friends around the world laugh at me when I tell them that in Britain you are FORCED to pay to watch TV - what a stupid country they think. So how can the BBC get away with charging us to watch it still when most of the programs are done by independent profit making companies and loads of the BBCs activities are commercial?
Question asked by: artiste

Asked on: 11 Feb 2009

I take it you don't like the bbc!

How they get away with this tax is presumably due to the fact that those who could change the law - ie MPs and Lords - are full of people who have good connections within the bbc and therefore it is not in their interests to do anything about it.

If it came down to the public vote of course then many people would vote against the license fee and it would most certainly be stopped.
By: knowitall
Replied at: 11 Feb 2009
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