And I have to pay for roads and national parks even if I don't drive or camp.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets, from the federal government, about $1.50 per US resident each year. Any estimate on the average TV fee in the UK?
I watch maybe 30 hours of PBS TV per year [1], so that works out to about 5 cents per hour. My wife watches a bunch of those stupid BBC mysteries, so she pays a lot less per hour.
I do listen to NPR radio in the car [2], commuting to/from work, so that's really cheap.
Do the brits tax car radios?
Our local PBS station, KQED, is financed almost entirely by local, voluntary support. It has to pay CPB/NPR for content.
[1] I was watching the new Poldark series for a while, but it became a cartoon never-ending soap opera, so I ordered some more books.I suppose Sherlock is gone, but it was getting preposterous too.
[2] when I can stand it.