Will the Tories actually sell the CBC?
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If we really want quality radio, we'll pay for it.
There are so many radio stations in the US. Have you listened to each one of them to confirm your belief?
And of course the opposite is true too. If people don't care for quality programming and are quite happy with shutting off the radio ro TV and puling out a good book, then why should they fund what they don't use?
So in the end, the quality could go up, could go down, could stay the same. But it's preposterous to suggest that it woud necessarily go down. That woud be up to Canadians to decide.
and we do, with taxes.
Careful now, I made no claim.
I simply outlined what I thought would be good enough evidence to prove your claim.
If you have other evidence then by all means post it but to be prima facie it needs to be from a similar industry. You can`t compare apples and radios ;-)
Honestly, I watch little TV and listen to litlte radio. So why should I be funding what I don't even use? And it's not an essential service either.
I'm all for funding things I don't use myself if they are essential or if they can help a person considerably in his life. The CBC is not among that list.
I'm all for funding things I don't use myself if they are essential or if they can help a person considerably in his life. The CBC is not among that list.
How about National Public Radio (NPR). It's the yankee version of CBC. In fact I often hear NPR stories on the CBC.
I just googled 'quality' 'radio' and 'programming' and a whole list comes up. I'm not going to start going through the entire list. But the fact that a whole list comes up seems a promissing start.
Thanks. There we have it, if it's quality programming and not government funded at all.
They aren`t corporate or for profit.
The argument is that corporate radio would provide CBC content if the market existed.
In the USA NPR proves the market is there yet still it isn`t corporate; which is to say corporate radio won`t provide the content. Obviously, I think, there is demand it just isn`t as profitable as Howard Stern.
I would agree if the government meant to reduce funding then this model might work, however, the OP said the government wanted to sell the radio, and so the NPR model isn`t applicable.
I'm in favour of resource taxes such as the Green Shift that the Green Party was proposing. The more gas you consume, the more tax you pay towards road maintenance. If you walk or cycle, you pay less. Sounds fair to me. Why should a pedestrian or cyclist pay as much for roads as a driver? Add to that that roads are a nuisance staning in the way of a pedestrian. So we'll force him to pay for something he doesn't use anyway and that even stands in his way? Talk about adding insult to injury?
Now as for busses, that's different. The bus company must still buy gas and pay the gas tax on it, so it would pass the cost on to the passengers. But since a bus uses less gas per passenger than a car, transit users would still pay less than drivers overall. And since motorbikes use less gas, bike riders would pay less tax too. Only fair. Same applies to the CBC.
I have a solution for this. Make our direct taxes charity deductible. That way I could give my tax money to schools, international development, etc.
You could give yor money to the CBC.
And Conservaties could give their money to the military.
It'll all balance out.
Well, just what I said.
If the CBC were to seek its own funding I think that would be great but to sell it to some corporate master would destroy it. The only real reason to buy the CBC would be to divide it up and sell it off. There would be real money in that but Canada would lose a treasure.
Now as I'd mentioned earlier, I think it would be wiser to sell the CBC once the economy is growing; now would seem to be a bad time to do that.
But as for cutting government funding for it, that I could certainly agree with.
But as for cutting government funding for it, that I could certainly agree with.
Then why not transform it into a workers' and consumers' co-op? That way those who care about it could put their money where their mouths are by buying a share and then watch it to their heart's content.