From: "John Beamish" 

Well "audience paid" collects funds for PBS (as an example) not
funds for program ABC on PBS.

As for objecting to paying taxes, there are certain services/"social
goods" that you quite willingly pay taxes for:  fire department being
but one.  And there are others where the government delivers a service at a
far better price than the public sector can do:  medicare being one.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:22:29 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tk0v5g2lm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>>> "Advertiser paid" = "audience paid" (where
to the advertisers get their
> money from?).  I have a pretty good idea of how you'll debate this.<<
>
> Not even close, advertiser paid is money being used to sell unrelated
> product to the audience, audience paid is money being used to satisfy
> the interests of the audience.
>
>>> The net effect is still the same:  you can pay it in taxes or you can
>>> pay
> it embedded in the cost of the product but you still pay for the
> programs.<<
>
> Paid by taxes is even worse, taxes are extorted from the audience and
> then spent on the desires of the extortionists.
>
> Geo.

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