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According to the BBC it’s now official and has the green light, anyone with a fixed phone line will have to pay around £6 a year extra in taxes so that rural areas can be given broadband. So we’re all being forced to pay for someone else to log onto the internet.

The government’s controversial broadband tax has been given the green light by chancellor Alistair Darling in his pre-Budget report.

The £6 a year levy will be imposed on all households with a fixed line phone.

Personally I’m still game for cutting all the MP’s wages by up to 50%  that would raise the money needed within 6 months or less and then it would mean we, the public won’t have to fork out for someone else. I’m sure people living in rural area’s wouldn’t like to be told they have to pay an extra £6 a year so that someone could come round and do our gardening.

Apparently the Conservatives said they would scrap it again if they came to power, things like this really sway the boat and I’m pretty sure I’d never vote labour again unless they actually do something drastic and good to change their ways.

It really does make me laugh, this whole economic thing, banks go bankrupt, they lose our money, the government takes our money gives it to the banks, the banks won’t lend it us back even though it is our we’re the told we need to pay higher taxes at some point in order to repay our money back to the government.

All these fictional figures get confusing because lets face, money is fictional the only value it truly has is that which society places upon it, we give it it’s power and we let it control us. These debts, they are numbers and nothing else.

The news article on the BBC can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8403273.stm

So one last thing, we’re providing the cash to get broadband installed around the country but who will make the money back from it when they are charging people to get onto the internet? The government? Virgin? BT? I most certainly don’t see it being you or me………… Do you?

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